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No such thing as “artifical intelligence”

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3 points by informationally 4 years ago · 2 comments

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1cvmask 4 years ago

If I had a dollar for every time I said that.

While correctly pointing out that it is algorithms at play I can't be amused at the history of the word algorithm itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#History

The word algorithm is derived from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, whose nisba (identifying him as from Khwarazm) was Latinized as Algoritmi (Arabized Persian الخوارزمی c. 780–850).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

The term algebra itself comes from the title of his book (the word al-jabr meaning "completion" or "rejoining"). His name gave rise to the terms algorism and algorithm, as well as Spanish and Portuguese terms algoritmo, and Spanish guarismo[18] and Portuguese algarismo meaning "digit".

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