for many years AI referred to that type of technology. It is not infact AGI but AI historically in the technical field refers more towards decision trees, and classification/ linear regression models.
Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated
Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 7 months agoThe decision tree my company uses to deny customer claims is not AI despite the business constantly referring to it as such.
There’s definitely a ton of “AI” in the business world that is not better than an If/Else statement.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 7 months ago
theneverfox@pawb.social 7 months ago
That’s called an expert system, and has been commonly called a form of AI for decades.
That is indeed what most of it is, my company was doing “sentiment analysis” and it was literally just checking it against a good and bad word list
When someone corporate says “AI” you should hear “extremely rudimentary machine learning” until given more details
Wrench@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s basically what video game AI is, and we’re happy enough to call it that
archon@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Well… it’s a video game. We also call them “CPU” which is also entirely inaccurate.