Perhaps I’m missing some key things here. While I can see the point that calling ML/AI software is likely both something of a misclassification and a bit misleading for many purposes, I’m not really finding the approach helpful for me.
My, albeit naive and uninformed view, is that distinction is really between an algorithm and software. Before ML, my takes is, algorithms were very specialized elements of software, e.g., efficient sort functions. The big move seems to have been into the world of some generalized algorithms that lets software kind of do things on it’s own rather than just what a programmer specifically “tells” the software to do.
Perhaps I’m missing some key things here. While I can see the point that calling ML/AI software is likely both something of a misclassification and a bit misleading for many purposes, I’m not really finding the approach helpful for me.
My, albeit naive and uninformed view, is that distinction is really between an algorithm and software. Before ML, my takes is, algorithms were very specialized elements of software, e.g., efficient sort functions. The big move seems to have been into the world of some generalized algorithms that lets software kind of do things on it’s own rather than just what a programmer specifically “tells” the software to do.