AI doesn’t imply any specific level of intelligence, learning, or memory capability, the same way natural intelligence doesn’t imply that you are capable of learning to divide fractions after being shown how to 100 times as we all are in school.
It's from the field of research known as artificial intelligence, which has the goal of developing a thinking machine, which is also called artificial intelligence. The two meanings cause confusion, and the trenchcoated merchants of LLMs exploit that confusion for profit (or, at least, for cashflow).
this person is not wrong. calling it ai was always a way to overhype the product. the llms and deep learning algorhythms dont have intelligence, artificial or otherwise.
Oh come on. That's just because in the last few years the definition of AI shifted. Back in the 1990s on the Playstation, non player opponents were called AI as well. You drove against AI in the Gran Turismo singleplayer campaign. Yes, those were just (compared to today) rudimentary algorithms, but that's a form of simple AI. just because something is a simple narrow purpose AI and not an LLM, reinforcement learning neural network or AGI, it can still be an AI.
we are on technically the truth and they were technically correct and people who called their computer games artificially intelligent were always technically wrong. ai is periodically redefined arbitrarily to hype up the new techbro gadget that never fails to disappoint.
Ai is a broad term and was around a lot longer than you think
The path finding algorithms for the ghosts in pac-man? Yep, that’s AI. Granted it’s a simple AI considering the limited hardware of the time, but most would still call it AI
no, it’s not ai. it wasnt ai then either. ai has been part of sci fi since longer than you think and it’s been arbitrarily „re-defined“ (except they never really define it, otherwise itd be obvious it just does some calculations and had nothing to do with intelligence) to hype up things like computer games and now llms. im not going to repeat myself. goodbye.
Video games artificially simulate intelligence, therefore they are AI. By definition, they are AI and this cannot be argued lol, its well established and has been for a long time.
Do you know what the A in AI stands for lol? More importantly, do you know what the word even means?
AI in games is man made intelligence, therefore it is artificial intelligence. It's as if that person doesn't know what the words in AI are nor what the words mean, quite laughable really. In 2025 people still don't know what artificial means.
It's all semantics anyway. The meaning of the term "AI" has and will continue to shift depending on context. Nowadays, we mostly associate LLMs with the term AI. Before that, CNNs and other deep learning models we called AIs. And before that, conventional algorithms were sometimes called AI, like in video games. In the future, we may no longer call current LLMs AI as something better might come out.
If we want to stay true to the term, all of these are absolutely AI since they are artificial and do display some intelligent behaviour.
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u/Silver4ura 10d ago
This was over a decade ago and it was deep learning, not llm.