[eru]

It would have been, 20 years ago.

[granzymes]

We call things AI until they start working. See also: robots (your washing machine is a robot, but it works so you don’t think of it that way).

[Dylan16807]

Calling things "robots" is more about the amount of movement. Spinning in place like a washing machine sprayer isn't enough to qualify.

A paint conveyer belt is not a robot. A sprinkler system is not a robot. A CnC machine might be a robot. A conveyer belt that sorts items might be a robot. A roomba is a robot. And all of these function just fine.

[kennywinker]

I think of robots as general purpose, machines are specific purpose. When it works, we make it single purpose because that’s far far cheaper than general purpose.

[eru]

Are welding machines at the Volkswagen factory robots?

[kennywinker]

Idk could you swap out an attachment and make them to something completely different?

[AussieWog93]

Are these the ones with 5+ axis arms? Yes, they're robots

[AussieWog93]

When I was studying ML back in 2017 people were still calling things like image classifiers "AI".

[AdieuToLogic]

>> Cardiac events from Apple Watches is not “AI” though

> It would have been, 20 years ago.

No, it would have been called what it is both then and now; an asynchronous message emitted by a device having sensors capable of detecting when to do so.