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Finnish man builds inexpensive solar boat and sets off to mediterranian. Gives out the plans for free (m.youtube.com)
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So i thought this fits here, he calls the boat Helios 11 and builds it with very little experience. He docunents the adventure quite well and shares what he learns, and also shares all the plans for the boat for free.

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Yes and no. "AI" has been a marketing term over a decade now, it's a vague statement which is pretty much mandatory to get funding.

In theory, I agree with you, automated navigation of boats seems like a good fit for machine learning.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Technically over a decade, but feels like that's an understatement.

    In the 1940s some people called a machine to play NIM as "Artificial Intelligence". People talked about opponent AI in checkers games before most of us were born.

    Certainly by the 80s using "AI" to describe the manipulations of enemy characters was all-in.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    That's why AI means everything and nothing. In games, computer controllwd characters are called AI, although they are straightforward algorithms. It's a catch-all term.

    In early 2000s, at least in the academia, we used AI to refer to neural networks, although it wasn't a strict term. Then anything machine learning (including regression models) were called AI, now LLMs and chatbots are called AI while other type of models are pretty much ignored. A boat navigation system could use a neural network but almost definitely not a language model at its core.

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