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> Which shows you it's not "AI"; it's more like some hacky code running right inside the phone which detects a plausible moon-like object in the image

The hacky code runing right inside the phones detecting objects, identifying faces and whatnot is often called AI.

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Fucking single if statements are called AI these days. That's not a strong argument. :)

That's because AI is an awful expression :|

Should have always been called "fancy algorithms" from the get-go, calling it "intelligence" opens the interpretation up for a world of misunderstandings

Do neural networks fall into the algorithm category?

How do you do squinting between an engineered process and a discovered relationship. Because the neural networks are much closer to discovered than engineered.

Yes. Being engineered or not is completely orthogonal to the discussion

>Because the neural networks are much closer to discovered than engineered

So is most code. Programmers in general can't engineer for shit, (half blindly) guided trial and error is the most common development paradigm

My Samsung tumble dryer proudly tells me every time I turn it on, “optimised by AI”. But it’s not smart enough to know it’s told me that a hundred times before.

To be fair, "optimized by AI" doesn't claim that the machine contains AI. Might just be "at some stage in the design process, AI was involved in some way". Which is probably for lots of hardware today.

"Optimized by AI" is the 2020's version of "Fuzzy Logic"

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