Comment by AndrewKemendo

Genuinely I think that’s the case.

I have been in “AI” since 1998 when I was writing A* route planning for npcs in this new cool engine called Unreal.

The only thing that has been consistent in all these years is that nobody thinks it’s AI unless it’s literally like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the terminator. I mean I’m not even exaggerating, it’s so ridiculously predictable that the goalposts for AI move the second whatever that particular technology becomes ubiquitous

So for example, hog sift, surf etc. along with localization algorithms like slam type systems we’re so thoroughly in research when I started that they were considered a pillar of the field of AI. Now literally, no one would consider those AI because they do not use deep convolutional networks.

So just like Marvin Minsky said AI is a suitcase term that doesn’t fucking mean anything. As somebody who’s been doing it for so long I’m used to it but it’s still annoying.

So I’m just building the terminator and the counter terminator so we can move on.