Comment on Ooni Volt 2 - they put "AI" in a pizza oven
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 days agoIt’s AI in the actual wide technological definition, not AI in the current marketing hype bubble way.
If that’s AI, then my ten year old dryer has AI because of the sensor that tells it how much humidity is in the air so it knows when my clothes are dry.
And my washer is AI because it knows how much water to add based on how much the load weighs.
And the air bag in my car is AI because it knows when I’ve gotten in a crash.
A simple line of code that goes “if moisture < 0.25 then loaddone” of “water = weight * 0.43” isn’t AI, true.
But when you start stacking enough of them with the goal and results being “We could get a chef to check how the pizza is doing every few seconds and, and control all of the different temperatures of this oven until it’s perfectly done, but we have made a computer algorithm that manages to do that instead”, then it’s quite hard to argue it isn’t software that is “performing a task typically associated with human intelligence, such as … perception, and decision-making.”
Especially if that algorithm was (I have no idea if it was in this case btw) not done by just stacking those if clauses and testing stuff manually until it works, but by using machine learning to analyze a mountain of baking data to create a neural network that does it itself. Because at that point, it definitely is artificial intelligence - it’s not an artificial general intelligence, which many people think is the only type of “true AI”, but it is an AI.
by using machine learning to analyze a mountain of baking data to create a neural network that does it itself.
except that neither the article nor the vendor website even come close to claiming it uses a neural network. the article even says
It’s a little less exciting than the name suggests.
all the Pizza Intelligence does is use sensors to make sure the pizza doesn't burn. it is literally as "dumb" as the humidity sensor in a dryer.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 4 days ago
Optical Character Recognition used to be cutting edge AI buzz in the 70s and 80s. Eventually, it got applied to all sorts of places, so OCR kinda lost some of the magic and sparkle. After that, people stopped thinking of it as AI, even though it relies on neural network.