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I went to a talk about the food and beverage industry this morning. The topic of these things is always AI, and the people who hype it the most feel like people who understand it the least.
There was one example that was quite useful, but it technically falls under machine learning. However, a lot of machine learning has been rebranded as AI because that's the hot thing at the moment.
I heard someone describing a cars parallel park assist as ‘AI parking’. Er no. It’s just the sensors and regular software. As per Arthur c Clark, ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’. Calling anything with software in it AI is the current magic trend.
2 + 2 is 4
Minus 1, that's 3 quick ~~mafs~~ AI
Sometimes it is just good old software programming. Nothing that learns anything, but still they call it AI.
If something works it must be AI, not a developer making something well and accounting for every use case
It's funny to me that what people call 'AI' is just an LLM.
I think it's mostly people who don't know what they're talking about and a few people working in the industry using the current trendy language so they can get funding