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Phones do use AI though, at least iPhones. They look at all sensors (accelerometers, gps, wifi, etc).



Gosh, so the moment you use an if-statement, or an aggregate function (like sum or average), or weighting coefficients to mark some inputs as more significant than others, it's "AI" already? And I naïvely thought it was just, well, "computing". You could do "AI" on a 8086, ffs.


Yeah, forgot the /s ... wasn't being serious.


Sensor fusion is AI I guess.


AI can be distilled down to a series of if-statements. That's basically all it is.


This is true of literally any software and if you really wanna oversimplify it, our brains are just a bunch of if statements (condition based logic) too...


I noticed too late to add /s or to attribute the quote, but kinda sad that people are taking it literally.

It’s a play on the quote “Life is a series of choices and reactions” from “Before The Fall”


Right, expert systems are GOF AI. What isn't?




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