personal AI Effect: Nonlinear Function
Created: May 29, 2020
Modified: May 29, 2020

personal AI Effect

This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.
  • The AI Effect refers to the widely-recognized phenomenon that 'once we know how to do it, it's not AI'. For example, playing chess well was once considered a hard AI problem, but now it's 'just' a search problem. "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." The original effect is described as applying to society at large as AI research progresses.
  • However, I think there's a smaller-scale version that I've encountered in my personal development as an AI researcher: "once I know how to do it, it's not AI."