Yeah, these arguments are reinventing history. People are happy calling basically anything AI[1], up until AI starts getting really good at stuff like natural language, and only then is language reinvented to kick it back down. AI has referred to any software that emulates aspects of humanlike decisionmaking to literally any nonzero degree of fidelity for as long as I've been alive.
And, like, what's the point anyway? Refusing to call it AI doesn't change its capabilities, for good or ill. It doesn't change that all of the leading capabilities labs bar FAIR really are aiming to build bona fide general intelligence, and even FAIR is named the Fundamental AI Research lab for a reason.
[1] eg. Pacman's Ghost AI — a totally cogent term for what sums up to a few lines of code and runs on a Z80. Wikipedia: “Each of the four ghosts has its own unique artificial intelligence (A.I.), or "personality": ...”
Funnily game AI is often smoke and mirrors.
devs often have really dumb down the game AI to be fair to the players. And they balance out the dumbing down by giving it bonuses.
example: game AI's often have unlimited ammo. But their bullets don't hurt the player much.
First-person shooter? You're certainly correct. No reason AI can't get headshots 100% of the time and have zero reaction time to the player coming into view.
Strategy games like Civilization? On hard difficulties, it's well-known that AI cheats. Probably because developing AI for a strategy game is pretty damn hard.
Yeah, these games are usually complex enough that creating a bullseye expert system AI for it is very difficult if not impossible. Chris Crawford was already talking about artificially boosting an AI player because of the inevitable skill gap between a fair AI player vs. an actual human in 1982, I remember reading an article about the AI of Eastern Front 1941 for the Atari 800, I'm sure it's not this one from Byte Magazine but it shows similar ideas: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-12/page/n97/m...
That's describing faked intelligence, not artificially created (actual) intelligence. It's using cheats that kinda look like intelligence if you don't know what's really going on.
no, see, that's my point: you wouldn't call genetically modified grass 'artificial grass'. As you did, you have to qualify it as 'artificially created'. Because apart from being 'artificially created' it's real grass. Likewise your clone is a real human.
So 'artificially created' things are not automatically 'artificial'. They're only 'artificial' if the artifice is still apparent in the end result. If they aren't real.
So my point: if we're describing something as 'artificial' intelligence, we should expect it to be a fake substitute for real intelligence, that has been manufactured to serve that purpose.
If you said you had 'artificially created intelligence', that is a different - and much bigger - claim than that you have 'created artificial intelligence'. Much like if you said you had 'artificially created life' that is a much bigger claim than that you have 'created artificial life'.
> So my point: if we're describing something as 'artificial' intelligence, we should expect it to be a fake substitute for real intelligence, that has been manufactured to serve that purpose.
And my point is that I don't think most people are reading it that way. We're in a hype cycle where people are treating it like true general AI, like you'd see in sci-fi, instead of what it is: fake/simulated intelligence.
I think you're putting too much weight on the components of a term, instead of seeing the term as a whole.
I like to point to the TV industry. They're pretty good at jumping on any hype train they can to make the TV sound more advanced than last year's models.
I have no idea what it does but my Sony has some AI sprinkled in it somewhere. Meanwhile, I just need a big dumb display
