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GPersontoday at 1:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

“What runs here is a plain-JavaScript port of a native C++ optimal solver I wrote.”

Seems to be AI in the older sense from 10 years ago?


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dev_dan_2today at 2:22 PM

Hmm, I would say even older than that (which, of course, is in no way intended to be a value statement of any kind, I like the website and the project, cool idea! :D).

In 2015, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo came around and latest from there on, AI was associated heavily with NNs, deep learning and so on (but not with the transformer architecture which became popular later, the foundational paper itself was published in 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need).

If you squint a little, the linked project is basically a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm with optimized implementation, heuristics and so on. I also think that A* was associated with AI due to its use in path finding in early robotics - But I am not sure!

nairboontoday at 2:20 PM

No, that's still AI in today's sense, just not an LLM.

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