[orasis]

Most people that balk at the term A.I. seem to presume that intelligence is some capacity unique to humans.

Intelligence is merely pattern matching and goal oriented planning, exactly what machine learning is doing today.

Stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.

[franciscop]

While for the general population it might be true, I disagree about this statement refering to Hacker News. For devs I think the main issue with this buzzwords is that it's seen as overengineering for SMB.

[sgt101]

"Intelligence is merely pattern matching and goal oriented planning" > ok you can talk about (parts) of cognition in that way, but it boils down to "we're all Turing machines" which is fine fine fine apart from the issue that what kind of turing machine doing what we do can fit into the soggy stuff in between our ears (as opposed to being able to model a conversation and yet the size of Jupiter with a run time of 2/3 the history of the universe). And there are parts that aren't covered by pattern matching and goal orientated planning such as goal generation and selection (accepting that if a pattern matcher is doing that -somehow - we have to explain how the pattern matcher "knows" to do it)

[nurettin]

To be really precise when talking to potential customers, I call it artificial classification. Even artificial learning is a hazy term that doesn't really explain much. Classification has many real world examples that customers can relate to. "Intelligence" has too many connotations and isn't really useful in getting your point through when consulting people with non-technical domain expertise.

[posedge]

The term "Intelligence" does not have a definition everyone agrees on but it surely is not "pattern matching". Machine learning today does little more than pattern matching and it is far from intelligence at a human level.

[andyjohnson0]

> Machine learning today does little more than pattern matching and it is far from intelligence at a human level.

I'm rather less confident about this than you may be. When I'm doing something that I could plausibly claim requires "intelligence", then it certainly doesn't really feel like I'm just doing pattern matching. But I'm increasingly of the view that our perception of our own mental processes is a poor guide to their reality. The likelihood that my intelligence really is just large scale pattern matching, even though it doesn't subjectively feel like that, seems quite high to me.

[orasis]

I’ve meditated a lot and come to the clear conclusion that this whole thing is just pattern matching and pattern generation. We’re not that special.

[nutjob2]

You've definitely bought the hype. There is no convincing definition of what (human) intelligence is.

All you've done is taken what machines do today and claimed that is what intelligence is.