• Theft Detection Lock is a powerful new feature that uses Google AI to sense if someone snatches your phone from your hand and tries to run, bike or drive away. If a common motion associated with theft is detected, your phone screen quickly locks – which helps keep thieves from easily accessing your data.

    Why would we need AI for that? That just makes the function unpredictable. There must be a real solution to detecting this.

      •  TehPers   ( @TehPers@beehaw.org ) 
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        211 months ago

        Not just marketing, that’s the term it’s always been called. Plug a bunch of parameters into a non-deterministic model and you’ve got an AI, at least by what seems to be the common definition of the term.

        • “AI” used to mean “whatever we don’t fully understand yet”. A lot of processes have walked the path from “fantasy” to “AI” to “algorithm”. Doesn’t need to be non-deterministic, the original tic-tac-toe playing software was “AI” at the time.

          Until we get some AGI, the term “AI” will remain a moving technological target, and a static marketing target.