Is machine learning not a concept we use any more, everything is called AI?
I did not get the memo about this.

You say potato, I say vegetable.
Same, same. Only different.

One practical reason is marketing

Who would like to know that some machine is (still) learning when you can advertise it as being intelligent enough already?!

Funny thing is that in computer games, the computer controlled agents were often called AI. Even though it never was done with ML.

@asgs

> Who would like to know that some machine is (still) learning when you can advertise it as being intelligent enough already?!

So true, but even worse: they don't just claim the machine is intelligent enough when it isn't, they stop learning and improving and instead push another product to market that isn't ready and mature, just let the masses become our beta testers

@Lensflare ML is a subfield of AI

I'm using AI to write this comment

@gitpush Best usage of the powerfull AI :D

@electrineer Yeah, you are right. It makes sense.

everything is AI because it sounds cool and makes a lot of money. actual AI hasn't really been developed yet

I hate "AI" art because it is literally just a database of images and steals from artists directly. This not only demeans artists, but also the concept of AI, because if AI were actually developed to make art, it would be almost humanoid, with original ideas and actual creativity involved, and right now with LLMs and "AI art" everything is just being sucked into corporations and out of the hands of proletariat.

@violet-isle sounds like you're confusing AI with artifical general intelligence (AGI)

@electrineer i was just using that as an example. theres no way things being marketed as ai are intelligent, literally individual animal neurons are entire levels of neural networks in a way, each with biases and weights and such, but we dont even label half of animals as intelligent. im not saying conciousness is a requirement, im saying intelligence is, and a neural network that has a database of images and matches pixels together based on image processing that a human programmed isnt intelligent, in my opinion, same for a neural net drawing from shakespeare and using the modt likely combinations of characters to answer a question isnt intelligent. theres a pretty big difference, i think

@violet-isle that's the artificial part

@electrineer where is the intelligent part??

@violet-isle it's the part where it responds to the environment/prompt in a way that matches or exceeds how an intelligent being could respond.

This is the evolution too. Before forklifts, people did it manually (I guess...)

Before robots, people did it manually. Every invention or tool was made so that humans can be more efficient and faster.

All the machine learning and AI is just the next step in this trajectory of technological evolution.