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  • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Arguably you are the one misusing the term. Even painfully mundane tasks like the A* pathfinding algorithm fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence. It’s a big, big (like, stupidly big) field.

    You are right that it’s not AGI, but very few people (outside of marketing) claim that it is.

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      1 month ago

      I’m going to argue quite strongly that my general, all purpose understanding of the words ‘artificial’ and ‘intelligence’ constitute the ‘correct’ definition for the term, and I don’t really care how ‘ai’ is defined ‘in industry’. It’s not intelligent, therefore it’s not artificial intelligence. You can redefine ‘intelligent’ in this context to mean whatever you like, but unless the general definition of the word changes then it doesn’t mean jack about shit.

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        1 month ago

        So what is intelligence in your general, all-purpose understanding?

        Are newborns intelligent? How about dogs? Ants?

        You may argue that current AI is still behind an average human adult and therefore not intelligent, but academia is a bit more nuanced.