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erikeriksontoday at 2:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

Those algorithms were only called machine learning and it's the opposite. Before the marketers got ahold of it we reserved AI for the actually intelligent, sentient, full strength vision of intelligent systems. We now talk about general AIs and A[Super]Is.


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rrvshtoday at 2:54 PM

That's not true. AI was widely used to refer to the decision systems and state machines that produced NPC behaviour in video games, and I'm sure many other things than just science fiction

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kyle-rbtoday at 3:22 PM

The term AGI was coined almost 30 years ago; is that when the marketers got ahold of it?

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