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Comment by short_sells_poo

1 year ago

I mean, if something as traditional as simple clustering is AI, then so is linear regression and Excel Sheets have been doing AI/ML for the past 2 decades.

At some point we just have to stop with the breathless hype. I'm sure labelling it as AI gets more clicks and exposure so I know exactly why they do it. Still, it's annoying.

At least until recently any introductory machine learning course would teach linear regression and clustering, the latter as an example of unsupervised learning.

Yes! AI is any sort of machine intelligence and its been around for more than 2 decades, the 80s even had its own "AI winter" after all.

You're only saying this because we're in a hype cycle. Circa 2018, there was no problem at all with calling this AI: in fact, it was normal.

  • Back then we still called things image classifiers or machine learning, and when you said AI most people probably had an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Cortana flash in their mind.