I get frustrated by the wide use of the term AI. What is AI other than, well, programming?
Even when I've spoken to devs who have have made game AI's or conversational AI's it seems that a lot of their work is with good 'ol IF statements and exceptions.
Somehow I had always imagined that an AI would be more like a neural net with an operational engine that didn't require exception based programming.
I agree with you more or less, my idea of AI is a program that when given input will not only respond but observe it's response and continue to modify it's response to find a unique (and optimal) solution. I think that this necessitates self-modifying programs but I am no expert.
I also think a lot of the trouble I have with the term stems from the ambiguity in the word artificial. Artificial smile vs artificial diamond.
I get frustrated by the wide use of the term AI. What is AI other than, well, programming?
Even when I've spoken to devs who have have made game AI's or conversational AI's it seems that a lot of their work is with good 'ol IF statements and exceptions.
Somehow I had always imagined that an AI would be more like a neural net with an operational engine that didn't require exception based programming.