Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

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Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI | Aeon Essays

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Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
"AI" is probably simple machine learning?
reads article
Yes, it is.
Machine learning is a form of AI, much more sophisticated than if else loops that are also AI, in fact. What did you think AI was, lol?
AI is about making a system seem intelligent, by having it do human-like tasks. This is the type of machine learnig that is the opposite of that.
I mean it says Graph Neural Networks, dont know how more AI can it get
AI has been co-opted by all the GenAI people. The number of times I've heard things like "AI is the next big thing for X business" and they're only talking about GenAI is way too high.
Im sooooo tired of everything being called AI. Words don't mean anything anymore. Its just a word to get clicks.
I mean they called bots in video game AI for decades now.
That is by any definition AI.
Just a few years ago, AI was a simple program that had hardcoded answers and inputs in if else conditional blocks and ML was ML. After ChatGPT got popular, AI is no longer a simple if else program. The worst of all is that ML is no longer called ML.
The term has been hijacked, at this point being pedantic about it is moot.