We all realize Siri is just a fancy Eliza with Internet access, right?
We can resume calling something "AI" when it can order a flight for you from the Ryanair website without making any mistakes (I'm not even at that level yet).
There are thousands of cases like this, where natural language is amibigous, but a human has no trouble understanding the intention.
Siri has tons of databases avsilable and knows my taste in music. It should do a better job than a human understanding what song i want.
A chess AI is little more than a recursive search for a maximum return, or a database search. There is not really anything distinguishing it from any other algorithm. Just the intention of the developer.
It's an interesting point though. At what point does it really become truly intelligent ? And I would guess that it would differ for each person.
• To search for flights, you must answer a captcha.
• They forcefully push travel insurance, luggage, luggage insurance, insurance insurance, extra baggage fees, and useless priority boarding.
• Once you start your search, you must complete their 5-step ordering process within 3 minutes or you have to start over from the beginning of your search.
The system we will call "AI" would be able to go from you saying "Order a flight between Dublin and Barcelona on the cheapest carrier" to actually using their unusable website to complete your request.
I imagine the old Siri app was using opentable or some other API to book reservations. It wasn't navigating the forest of unstructured innate dumbness in the world.