[level1ten]

Image recognition is AI.

[mysterymath]

There's an old saying: "Yesterday's AI is today's algorithm". Few would consider A* search for route-planning or Alpha-Beta pruning for game playing to be "Capital A Captial I" today, but they absolutely were back at their inception. Heck, the various modern elaborations on A* are mostly still published in a journal of AI (AAAI).

[Teleoflexuous]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect We got it named already, it just needs to be properly propagated until there's no value left in calling things 'AI'.

[mrbombastic]

This is a fair point and maybe someone more well versed can correct me but pretty much all state of the art image recognition is trained neural networks nowadays right? A* is still something a human can reasonably code, it seems to me that there is a legitimate distinction between these types of things nowadays.

[bitwize]

Apparently there was a big scare that AI would take programmers' jobs away... decades ago, when the first compilers came out.

[level1ten]

We will likely develop more accurate names for the different shades of AI after the fact. Or the AI will.

[singpolyma3]

A* is definitely AI... Why would someone say it isn't?

[rzzzt]

Maybe it is easier to define what isn't AI? Toshiba's handwritten postal code recognizers from the 1970s? Fuzzy logic in washing machines that adjusts the pre-programmed cycle based on laundry weight and dirtyness?

[ska]

Historically, we often call something AI while we don’t really understand how it works. After that it quietly gets subsumed into machine learning or another area and called X algorithm.

[singpolyma3]

Those both sound like AI to me

An example of similar computer can do that isn't AI would be arithmetic