Virtual/Simulated Intelligence. That’s a far better term. I’m going to start using that.
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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 months agoAI is a term I was taught a long time ago to mean that a computer has transcended and become sentient. Artificial Intelligence.
VI - is what I think we almost have now. Simulated intelligence. It’s at this point now where so many people think that Ai can think for itself that we may as well call it VI just to get on with the progress.
luthis@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m a researcher in ML and that’s not the definition that I’ve heard. Normally the way I’ve seen AI defined is any computational method with the completing tasks that are thought to require intelligence.
This definition admittedly sucks. It’s very vague, and it comes with the problem that the bar for requiring intelligence shifts every time the field solves something new. We sort of go “well, given these relatively simple methods could solve it, I guess it couldn’t have really required intelligence.”
The definition you listed is generally more in line with AGI, which is what people likely think of when they hear the term AI.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe a defined term should be used. The use of the term “AI” makes me puke in my mouth because most people associate it with “omg the robots are coming!” when it’s really just a program still. So much so that people have made videos of them implementing Ai inside of video games (see: matrix) and then contemplate if the computer program is suffering.