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What is an "ai task"? Their task is anything we assign them to do.
The problem is that "AI" is a completely ill-defined term. The commenter above used the definition of it just being a more complex program and then they argued that you don't need a more complex program. That's as good of a definition as any other.
By "ai tasks" I mean smth where ai is actually useful, such as object/pattern recognition, object classification, making predictions based on past data, etc. Can one train an ai to predict they need to buy onions when they have less than X in their fridge? Yap. Can one do the same with an if statement and prevent themselves from running into issues when ambient temperature on Mars rises? Also, yes.
An AI task would be literally anything impossible or slow for a human to do that a computer could do instead (without having developers specifically work for months to provide explicit instructions on how to do it). Kinda weird to see technology evolving like this and still set arbitrary defining parameters like that
Hmm, guess I wasn't clear. It's not "arbitrary defining parameters", but more of "ai is a tool that better solves specific types of tasks" kind of thing. Can you replace an if statement with an ai? Yes, but that's somewhat like hammering a screw (that is to say, inefficient).
AI is just a program that learns from the information you provide it to predict the next element in a series.
If you want a program to check whats in your fridge, a simple spreadsheet updated whenever you empty a bag is just as good.
An use for AI could be to update the spreadsheet with images from the inside of the fridge but you would need cameras that can work inside fridges.
so it is an ai task, but requires some setup