Reply to post: Re: Finally, a proper description of what the media dubs "AI" actually is

Self-driving truck boss: 'Supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype. It isn’t C-3PO, it’s sophisticated pattern matching'

Brian Miller

Re: Finally, a proper description of what the media dubs "AI" actually is

But why is this news? All along "AI" has been pattern matching, and has always been shown to be pattern matching. I remember early demonstrations of AI telling the difference between headshots of men and women, and then being confused when given headshots of the Beatles.

The real question is, can we use pattern matching to reliably navigate a multi-ton object without human intervention? Sure, if the object is on rails, and isn't subject to major random interference.

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