Yet when AI learned to wash dishes in the home (among other tasks), freeing up a homemaker's time to join the workforce, it seems the labor market absorbed the influx in people largely by creating bullshit jobs.
Certainly not. Indeed, all AIs are machines, but not all machines are AI. The kitchen faucet that preceeded the dish washer as the primary tool used to wash dishes is a machine, but has no intelligence. The dish washer expanded upon the concept of the kitchen faucet by adding artificial intelligence to it.
That's exactly what artificial intelligence means...
There is a secondary definition of AI that says basically an AI is anything that we haven't yet figured out how to do. Once we figure out how to do it, it ceases to be AI.
Indeed, terms can and do have multiple meanings, but I'm not sure that secondary definition fits the topic of discussion.
> you’d say a can opener is artificial intelligence compared to a pocket knife?
No. In that case the intelligence is applied by the user. A can opener could be a component in a larger AI system. An AI needs to be aware (in the artificial sense) of its surroundings.
Edit: I forgot that AI can openers do exist. The can opener I own is of the dumb machine kind and I hadn't fully considered what else might use that term. Yes, those are an AI.
> That’s not the way anyone uses the term.
Except when they do. Indeed, the "an AI is anything we haven't figured out yet" definition is about as common, but doesn't seem to be the definition that fits the topic at hand.
A third definition where AI is defined as an ANN seems to be emerging in popular culture, but again that doesn't really fit the topic at hand as a lot of the job-replacing intelligences are not based on ANNs.
I apologize for suggesting insincerity on your part. It’s just that I think there is such a thing as artificial intelligence and something simply being a more complex machine doesn’t qualify. Your definition is idiosyncratic but I recognize your earnestness.
> It’s just that I think there is such a thing as artificial intelligence
Perhaps you are actually thinking of what is more commonly known as AGI (artificial general intelligence)? None of these machines of which we have spoken of are AGIs. That I can agree with.
