AI IS NOT IF ELSE STATEMENTS. AI learns and adapts to its surroundings by learning. It stored this learnt data into "weights" in accordance with its stated goal. This is what "intelligence" refers to.

Edit: I was wrong lmao. As the commentators below pointed out, "AI" in the context of computer science is a term that has been defined in the industry long before. Where I went wrong was in taking the definition of "intelligence" and slapping "artificial" before it. Therefore while the literal definition might be similar to mine, it is different in CS. Also, @blotz@lemmy.world even provided something called "Expert Systems", which are a subset of AI that use if-then statements. Soooo yeah... My point doesn't stand.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

This is unfortunately not true - AI has been a defined term for several years, maybe even decades by now. It's a whole field of study in Computer Science about different algorithms, including stuff like Expert Systems, agents based on FSM or Behavior Trees, and more. Only subset of AI algorithms require learning.

As a side-note, it must suck to be an AI CS student in this day and age. Searching for anything AI related on the internet now sucks, if you want to get to anything not directly related to LLMs. I'd hate to have to study for exams in this environment...

I hate it when CS terms become buzzwords... It makes academic learning so much harder, without providing anything positive to the subject. Only low-effort articles trying to explain subject matter they barely understand, usually mixing terms that have been exactly defined with unrelated stuff, making it super hard to find actually useful information. And the AI is the worst offender so far, being a game developer who needs to research AI Agents for games, it's attrocious. I have to sort through so many "I've used AI to make this game..." articles and YT videos, to the point it's basically not possible to find anything relevant to AI I'm interrested it...

[–] corship@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Machine learning isn't the only form of AI.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but learning and training is still a component, no? If something cannot learn how to solve problems autonomously, how is it intelligent?

[–] corship@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've developed "AI" using prolog.

No machine learning, you're still solving problems using logical reasoning and deduction that's not intuitively obvious for humans.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

An intelligent system is a system that autonomously gathers information accessible to it, learns how to use this information to achieve its terminal goal and uses this skill. Does your prolog "AI" fit this description? Does it "write" its own logic? If yes, then it is intelligent. If no, then it is no different than some random non intelligent computer program.

[–] corship@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I mean, you can simply define something differently than the last 50 years of researchers in computer science. It's just not going to make a difference.