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by jfkebwjsbx 2253 days ago
It is academic AI.

People simply have no clue what AI actually means and think it is only about sci-fi robots and ML.
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ncallaway 2251 days ago
That's fair. I guess I meant more "the frontier of academic AI", but then again I don't really keep up with academic AI at all, so I might just be wrong about what academic AI is. I can't really make any strong claims about academia.

My stronger claim is that this falls so squarely within the bounds of "game AI" that it's fairly ludicrous to say it's not AI.

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FZ1 2253 days ago
A* search counts as academic AI. If-then statements do not.
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Der_Einzige 2253 days ago
Such a wrong take. Decision trees are nothing more than if statements. Fancier versions of those (random forests) are consistently near SOTA algorithms like neural networks (and beat them on tabular datasets frequently). AI can be just a shit ton of if/else statements.
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jfkebwjsbx 2253 days ago
If-then statements are definitely AI, and A* is also a bunch of if-then statements.
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ncallaway 2251 days ago
It's kinda cool that we get to interact with the final arbiter of the bounds of the term "academic AI".
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