it's pretty amusing how a lot of drone companies have recently decided to rebrand "autopilots with sensors that let you follow waypoints and avoid obstacles" (tech which basically existed 10 years ago) as "AI" for marketing purposes
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It’s a plague on all the electronics now, they just stick “AI” on TVs & shit for the buzzword. Reminds me of how everything had to have “HD” on it for a while even where it meant nothing / made no sense. Eventually it just becomes a version number. Maybe good to accelerate the term’s meaninglessness
I mean “drone” already suffers from “term applied to so many different things that it always needs additional clarification” so why not do it for “AI” too
So I use the same term for an overgrown RC quadcopter that I do for a highly sophisticated armed fixed wing aircraft operated by the CIA. Surely there's nothing confusing about this
About 5 years ago I got access to fancy Westlaw and the big cutting edge thing was this program that would read briefs and recommend counter arguments and cases to cite and I bet you a can of peaches they call it AI now.
Full circle - I remember in my CS classes how back in the early days, like the 60s and 70s, robotic pathfinding was the leading edge of AI. Then it just became an a algorithm when everyone figured out a way to do it.
Marketing and software companies have been tagging things as “AI” for almost as long as there’s been computers. A decade from now there’ll be a new AI, and a decade after that, and so on
Oh, lord, I had the pleasure of someone trying to sell me a hugely expensive drone that supposedly uses AI to fly missions for orthoimagery. I kept telling him that I already have lots of cheap drones that can successfully fly in a regular grid pattern.
I spent a little time trying to ask him about an application that AI might ACTUALLY be useful for, but he clearly didn't know any, so he just kept essentially saying "You know, AI"
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I guess they were ahead of the game!
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Charles Babbage invented AI in 1822.
also Spore was great
And thank you
the original saying you’ve heard is “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”