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AI is an overloaded term.

I took an AI class in 2001. We learned all sorts of algorithms classified as AI. Including various ML techniques. Under which included perceptrons.

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That was an impressive takeaway from the first machine learning course i took: that many things previously under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence have since been demystified and demoted to implementations we now just take for granted. Some examples were real world map route planning for transport, locating faces in images, Bayesian spam filters.

back in the day alpha-beta search was AI hehe

As a young child in Indonesia we had an exceptionally fancy washing machine with all sorts of broken English superlatives on it, including "fuzzy logic artificial intelligence" and I used to watch it doing the turbo spin or whatever, wondering what it was thinking. My poor mom thought I was retarded.

My rice cooker also has fuzzy logic. I guess they just use floats instead of bools.

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