Hacker News Reader

Comment by djrogers | Hacker News Reader

> hilariously easy from a implementation perspective since everything but slapping the voice recognition on top and mapping key words to software commands has been solved for a long time.

Yes, any single capability is 'hilariously easy' to implement - the problem with these systems is that there are thousands of capabilities to implement before people can consider them close to doing 'everything'.

View on HN

This is why truly horizontal AI is 20 years away IMHO

I really wish companies would stop redefining things like AI just for marketability.

It's leading people to believe that real AI programming is occurring regularly.

Would there be a better term for this? I know nothing of AI, but it seems like it should still be categorized as AI, but at a much lower level?

I remember this discussion from school. Textbooks have defined most of the experiments and tools of the AI boom of the '60s as "AI": things like neural nets and even basic "expert systems" such as today's phone trees. Individually, these things aren't really AI, but even today most of them are fundamental component parts in the larger discussion...

What is the "atomic theory" of AI? Are all of these pieces and components evolutionary explorations into AI or something less or something different? What do we call them along the way other than just "AI"?

It's machine learning and NLP which is not AI (and thus I agree)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com