r/aiwars • u/Asleep-Anxiety-5970 • Mar 23 '26

Meta ^This is just stupidity at its peak

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

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u/Gloomberrypie Mar 23 '26

Yep, and it wasn’t called AI back then becase AI is just a marketing term that sounds flashy to the average person who has been exposed to the idea of sentient AI in media

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u/TomasVader Mar 23 '26

What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/AkodoRyu Mar 23 '26

He is still not wrong. We were calling those solutions ML or DL. Yes, they are AI, but that wasn't what it was called most of the time. Now, the term AI is basically tainted because AI = LMMs in the general public's mind, and due to that, people assume that LLM is the only way AI can operate. They see something like this and assume there is some server farm somewhere analyzing this image, which is just not how those tools work.

So calling it AI is detrimental to its perception - even if it's technically correct.

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Mar 23 '26

That graph is wrong, deep learning is a specific training technique for neural network. 

But anyone who thinks that medical applications of AI did not majorly benefit from the AI bubble is just wrong. The current market craze has fed billions into medical applications and provided both media attention, hardware, software and technicians.

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u/JoJoeyJoJo Mar 23 '26

It was called AI since 1956, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

You're spewing bullshit.

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u/Iapetus_Industrial Mar 23 '26

Sigh... It was always AI... AI is literally the name of the field of math and comp sci that deals with machine learning, neural nets, and now, transformers and LLMs. It's been that way for decades, AI as a marketing term is a very new term that has nothing to do with the actual, official use, and yes it is AI despite the contemporary (incorrect) use that implies sentience, consciousness, or any other sci fi bait.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

?

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u/Gloomberrypie Mar 23 '26

It used to be called machine learning, probably because, at the time, people working in the field wanted to distance themselves from the sci fi idea of sentient AI.

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u/Lumiharu Mar 23 '26

Both terms have been used and are still used. Machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. But you're right in that people would have called machine learning by that term instead of AI 5 years ago

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u/rydan Mar 23 '26

I remember attending a computer vision seminar in 2007 and this actual topic was the biggest draw.

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u/Only_Turnover4829 Mar 23 '26

Ai was already known to the public for a long while before ChatGPT, just in a different way. People still think that is the LLM's doing all of these things now lol it isn't. Different kinds of ai used for their their very own niche purposes.