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by IshKebab 547 days ago
I doubt it. A recommender system is not "obviously" AI - it could easily be just static lists, or based on viewing counts (wouldn't be surprised given how bad Netflix's algorithm is).

LLMs and gen AI are totally different. They are very clearly AI. You're literally having a conversation with a computer! I don't think people will stop calling it AI.
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alephnerd 547 days ago
30 years ago, graph traversal algorithms using weights and min-max were treated as AI.

And recommender systems were/are absolutely a ML/AI subfield.

> I don't think people will stop calling it AI

That already did in the above two cases, as well as plenty of other cases in the entire ML/AI world.

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IshKebab 546 days ago
> 30 years ago, graph traversal algorithms using weights and min-max were treated as AI.

Yes, by AI practitioners. The difference is that the general public has always had an idea of what "AI" means, and LLMs are the first thing that actually matches that.

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