Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth

I hate that both this kind of machine learning applied to scientific research and consumer focused LLMs are both called "AI", that neither is "intelligent" and that consumers don't know the difference.

Well the term Artificial Intelligence came from 1955 conference entitled "The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence".

To quote their purpose:

>The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.

While you may argue it is not intelligent, it is certainly AI, which is anything in the last 70 years utilizing a machine that could be considered an incremental steps towards simulating intelligence and learning.

... by people working on AI, and suckers.

This is "it's just an engineering problem, we just have to follow the roadmap", except the roadmap is illegible and the incremental steps noodle around and lead somewhere else.

> This is "it's just an engineering problem, we just have to follow the roadmap",

No, this is "it's a science problem". All this:

> except the roadmap is illegible and the incremental steps noodle around and lead somewhere else.

is what makes it science rather than engineering.

I mean, thinking about it a lot and trying stuff out is good, but you can't claim anything you tried was a step toward the eventual vital insight, except retrospectively. It's not incremental like a progress bar, it's more like a spinner. Maybe something meaningful is going on, maybe not.