[Veedrac]

Siri, Google Assistant, speech detection, speech generation, textual photo library search, similar data augmentations for web search, Google Translate, recommendation algorithms, phone cameras, server cooling optimization, phone touch screens touch detection, video game upscaling, noise reduction in web calls, file prefetching, Google Maps, OCR, etc.

AI has already won, most people just don't realize it.

[goatlover]

Won what? Is there a competition? Humans still have jobs. Humans are still politicians, judges, CEOs, generals. They even still play chess!

All those successful forms of AI are narrow, not the AGI of science fiction (like Data, Skynet, HAL) or Ray Kurzweil predictions. AI is a tool humans use to extend human capabilities. It always has been. Maybe someday it will be something more.

[Veedrac]

Won a place in the software stack, alongside traditional software approaches, much like the GPU won, and became a second pillar of computing.

[dougmwne]

Yes, thank you. There has already been a revolution over the past 5 years or so and many things that had been too audacious for science fiction became every day products. I think the ML revolution hit me personally about 5 years ago as I was able to get perfect speech recognition from my phone on a loud, crowded subway platform as a train was pulling in. I would have never thought that possible. I would have been skeptical if star trek had shown it.

[the_af]

I know there is this moving target where once a given piece of (allegedly) AI becomes mainstream, people claim "it's not AI".

That said, what definition of AI are you using? It seems to me you're stretching it a bit...

[Veedrac]

From my position this narrowing of the term AI to refer only to ‘real intelligence’ has always seemed like little more than an attempt to control the narrative against an astonishingly successful trend of connectionist architectures doing incredible things. Nobody complained when Pac-Man's ghosts got called AI, but now it's political.

All of what I mentioned are neural networks.

[the_af]

You got a point there with the neural networks. Though I never considered the ghosts from Pac-Man to have an AI. And why are you framing this as a "control the narrative"/political argument?