On: Why is AI so useless for business?

[TeMPOraL]

> (2) Modern route-finding algorithms are to your on-paper-Dijkstra what a rocket ship is to your bicycle.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Modern path-finding algorithms are Dijkstra + lots of heuristics piled on top.

> graph traversal is absolutely a fundamental of AI.

I agree. But being a fundamental of AI does not make it AI itself.

[kinkrtyavimoodh → TeMPOraL]

And a rocket is Newton's laws + lots of heuristics piled on top.

Sometimes the heuristics ARE the point.

[pathseeker → kinkrtyavimoodh]

Sure, but they certainly aren't AI. They were written by people and do not learn based on new inputs.

[angry_octet → TeMPOraL]

Dijkstra + hacks is a rather unjust simplification...

Some good examples of modern approaches, though a bit dated now: http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/routeplanning.php

Relevant conf: https://icaps20.icaps-conference.org/

(ML techniques are increasingly being used to solve these problems, and graph algorithms are used in ML, but are not AI/ML.)