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USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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280 points antidnan | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.611s | source
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hiddencost ◴[22 Oct 24 17:36 UTC] No.41916647[source]▶
Love to see a project that uses bog standard ML techniques and doesn't call them AI. Respect.
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1. strbean ◴[22 Oct 24 20:02 UTC] No.41918105[source]▶
Are we getting to the critical point where we declassify a bunch of stuff as AI? Used to be expert systems were considered AI. Now anything-not-an-LLM is going to stop being AI?
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2. lovich ◴[22 Oct 24 20:52 UTC] No.41918572[source]▶
That treadmills been going on for a long time. Didn’t OCR used to be classified as AI?
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3. jpk ◴[22 Oct 24 22:24 UTC] No.41919345[source]▶
Yep, back when programming language syntax started trending toward more natural language, compiler development was considered AI research. Which makes sense, because in an era of assembly on punch cards, computers that could translate higher-level instructions that read more like English into machine code you used to have to write (or punch) by hand probably felt pretty intelligent.