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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

How is that programmer humor of all things and how does that need ai?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Using Ai in the old sense and not LLM.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

What's the old sense? A program? "AI" didn't exist in the old days and it doesn't exist now.

The logic here is like 3 lines of code maybe? The ubiquity of "AI" grifting has made language meaningless.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

In the sense that the enemies in the first Doom had "AI".

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

"AI" has existed since the 70s in terms of computing. In terms of the theory, much further back.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It was actually the 50s, commonly attributed to John McCarthy.

Crazy its been around almost a century at this point

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, but it wasn't really possible to code the stuff they wanted to at that time.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah, AI was totally never used to describe the logic behind NPC actions as far back as the Atari days.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The term is probably older than you.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yea, they used AI for better reasons before

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well it's comedy (even if you don't agree, thats what he's going for).

And ai is commonly used as a catchall term for any program doing some kind of automation.

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