AI as an umbrella term

This is based on a recent Nature study, and it’s useful with a caveat that may make the findings and visuals less striking than they look:

“๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘“๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘†๐‘๐‘œ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ , ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ , ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘  โ€˜๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”โ€™; โ€˜๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ก*โ€™, โ€˜๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”โ€™, โ€˜๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘กโ€™, โ€˜๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”โ€™, โ€˜๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’โ€™, โ€˜๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘“๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘”๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’โ€™, โ€˜๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›โ€™, โ€˜๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ โ€™, โ€˜๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘–ฬˆ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘ โ€™, โ€˜๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ โ€™, โ€˜๐‘™๐‘™๐‘š*โ€™, โ€˜๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘”๐‘๐‘กโ€™, โ€˜๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ฅ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ โ€™, โ€˜๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ โ€™.”

So, SVM, Naive Bayes, Random forest, and Ensemble methods are all called AI (not untrue, but…). Gaussian processes? Well, papers with a GP regression count then. Dimensionality reduction? So, papers using PCA or LDA count.

This feeds the trend of using AI as an umbrella term unfortunately.

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