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They're calling everything "AI" nowadays... this sort of learning algorithm is old as fuck, here's a 8yo example. The main differences between both situations is 1) some sensor(s) being used to "tell" the algorithm about the board state, and 2) the barebones robotic arms messing with the board.
I don't get what the issue is calling it AI?
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.
AI implies intelligence. This is just a simple algorithm
Not really. Can you write this specific simpele algorithm out in a few lines? Its Computer Vision (which I admit uses probably quite a simple algorithm to find the ball) and a reinforcement learning algorithm with one goal; get the ball from start to finish, these are your only 2 inputs. They didn't write the algorithm. Time and the neural network did the rest on its own. That's were the artificial 'intelligence' is referring to, humans didn't put any algorithm there.
Exactly. Not to mention, why the fuck is it a surprise that a computer twisting the knobs “at superhuman speed” would be better at this game than humans. Like, no shit. We can’t compute how the degrees at which we’re turning the knobs affects the speed of the ball, can’t store that information for next time, and find the best way not making the same mistakes twice. Because…we’re human. We don’t have that finely tuned ability…because we’re not machines.
So…this isn’t “AI” despite the robot hands they put in the thumbnail and no shit a dedicated computer could master this game. I’m surprised it took six hours.
Additionally, this shit is really easy to compute. It's all Newtonian physics, and there are only two relevant equations here, both simple: d = at²/2 + vt and a = g*sin(θ). It's really easy for a computer to reach those formulas, cancelling the advantage that humans would have (insight and actual knowledge of the system).
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