It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
I mean, yes. Linux is an algorithm. The programmes called AI are also still algorithms - they’re still deterministic, just too much of a tangled mess, too complex, for a anyone too realistically break it down step by step.
There are some math problems that cannot be described algorithmically, but because of that they’re also non computable. Uh, some thermodynamics and quantum stuff from what I’ve heard.
I’d say it’s more like a way to describe a certain kind of algorithm. One that adapts in some way to inputs that defy simple classification. Ultimately you’re probably just safe to replace AI in modern news and internet discussion with LLM or CNN.
So it’s a new synonym for algorithm.
Not quite. Algorithms are definite, you get the same guaranteed output if you give the same input every time. AI is generally more fuzzy logic.
If it can run on a computer, its an algorithm. Definitionally.
Great, Linux is an algorithm.
It might be accurate, but it’s also vague enough that it’s a pretty useless definition.
I mean, yes. Linux is an algorithm. The programmes called AI are also still algorithms - they’re still deterministic, just too much of a tangled mess, too complex, for a anyone too realistically break it down step by step.
There are some math problems that cannot be described algorithmically, but because of that they’re also non computable. Uh, some thermodynamics and quantum stuff from what I’ve heard.
That’s my point.
I’d say it’s more like a way to describe a certain kind of algorithm. One that adapts in some way to inputs that defy simple classification. Ultimately you’re probably just safe to replace AI in modern news and internet discussion with LLM or CNN.
I agree with that, but others don’t. And that’s the problem. It’s not a fixed definition. It’s marketing.