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> Clearly, Eliza is not an AI

Sadly the author doesn't elaborate on this. I thought nowadays 'AI' is a synonym for 'algorithm', which would fit ELIZA

Is there an accepted definition of the word AI?




We've been misusing the term ever since observing the ghosts in Pac Man.


Any algorithm you do not understand.


So, any of my own code I haven't looked at for a few months? :)


Including the one in your head.


Seems like the modern definition is something along the lines of an algorithm whose behavior depends on data which was itself machine generated, rather than hand-created by a human like Eliza's rules.




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