Talk:Artificial intelligence

Wiki Education assignment: First Year English Composition 1001

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I encourage students to add material to these articles, which are at one level below this WP:summary article:

• History of AI, Timeline of AI
• Philosophy of AI
• Applications of AI
• AI safety, Ethics of AI, Explainable AI, Regulation of AI
• Artificial general intelligence, Superintelligence, Progress in AI, Existential risk of AI
• Etc.

The quality of these articles is up and down: some of them could use more editorial work, and there is plenty of room for more valuable material. ---- CharlesTGillingham (talk) 19:27, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Almost no mention to computer science and computational complexity of AI models

Currently all the development of AI is concentrated in advancing current algorithms and mathematical models. Several Computer Science departments around the world are pushing this field by researching novel architecture and more complex computational algorithms. It should be clear that AI fulls under computer science, as AI primary goal is to conceive computers/machines the ability to infer information upon unseen data. JoaoL975 (talk) 18:14, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

If you want to add such information, it must be cited to reliable sources (see WP:NOR and WP:V) and it should be added to the body of the article. The opening section summarizes the article body. Adding one's unsourced opinion of the subject to the lead section isn't how Wikipedia is written. MrOllie (talk) 18:36, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

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Controversy over the definition of AI (need to add)

Other definitions avoid attributing the quality of intelligence to the computational capacity of machines or software. Jo Adetunji, Editor, The Conversation UK, wrote that the concept of artificial intelligence is being used abusively or, in other words, there is an inflation of the term that harms its realization. ([1])

This is how other definitions arise, such as that of the expert technologist Mauro D. Ríos, who defines AI as the field of information science dedicated to giving software automation, characteristics that simulate the cognitive abilities of the human being, applying these simulations to problem solving and manifesting the results as moving actions, written or spoken language, graphic representations or emerging data.

Ríos, Mauro,Arficial intelligence: When technology is the smallest of the paradigms. (July 26, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4521736 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4521736 2800:A4:1782:D300:9488:FEE5:2849:DCDF (talk) 01:18, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

My only problem with this is that there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of such definitions, each by an established academic in a peer reviewed paper. There is no way for this article to cover all of these.(Keep in mind, there are about 1.8 million academic papers about AI.)

In the philosophy section we do Turing, Russell/Norvig & McCarthy because these are the most important and influential. In the lede, we do the most obvious and uncontroversial definition possible, sidestepping all the philosophical problems. ---- CharlesTGillingham (talk) 16:39, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

The current definition in both the lead and the "Defining artificial intelligence" section are fine. Neither of the sources given above contradict what is currently in the article. The first just says the term is being misused, the other is just a rephrasing of what is currently in the lead. That AI is "giving software automation, characteristics that simulate the cognitive abilities of the human being" is just a restating of the article's lead sentence, that "Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of humans or animals." I also agree with CharlesTGillingham that we only need to concern ourselves with the most prominent, widely accepted definitions. Elspea756 (talk) 17:00, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Saying that Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software is not the same as saying that it is a simulation of the cognitive abilities of the human being. So yes, the cited sources contradict the assertion that machines have intelligence and think. 2800:A4:E75:2800:4DA8:5840:CB16:28D3 (talk) 00:20, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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