Comment by stingraycharles
16 hours ago
Strictly speaking, expert systems are AI as well, as in, an expert comes up with a bunch of if/else rules. So yes technically speaking even if they didn’t acquire the weights using ML and hand-coded them, it could still be called AI.
It is 100% valid to label an algorithm that plays tic-tac-toe as "AI"
Much of the early AI research was spent on developing various algorithms that could play board games.
Didn't even need computers, one early AI was MENACE [1], a set of 304 matchboxes which could learn how to play noughts and crosses.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
Yup this is exactly my point, in the 80s there were plenty of “AI” companies and “fuzzy logic” was the buzzword of the day.
I built the Matchbox for Hexapawn, detailed in National Geographic Kids!
I didn't know what a Jujube was, but I got the idea.
That Hexapawn article was my first introduction to AI as a kid, though I never actually built it.
Found it in a "Reader's Digest Young Persons annual" which my dad got when he was a kid in the 60s. I still have that.
The original article from Scientific American: https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/idocs/GardnerHexapawn.pd...