Even if skipping completely the discussion about what is “intelligence”, the expression “artificial intelligence” has been used as a label for so many different technologies that it has become practically useless. It includes things like decision trees in games (even if a lot of them boil down to simple if/then statements), generative models, even theoretical systems that would reason in a human-like way. And evolutionary models like the one in the OP and the one in my link.
So it’s basically the 20s version of what “smart” was in the 90s/00s. Like this:
OK, I’m being cheeky and exaggerating it in the image macro, but it should give you an idea.
Even if skipping completely the discussion about what is “intelligence”, the expression “artificial intelligence” has been used as a label for so many different technologies that it has become practically useless. It includes things like decision trees in games (even if a lot of them boil down to simple if/then statements), generative models, even theoretical systems that would reason in a human-like way. And evolutionary models like the one in the OP and the one in my link.
So it’s basically the 20s version of what “smart” was in the 90s/00s. Like this:
OK, I’m being cheeky and exaggerating it in the image macro, but it should give you an idea.