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>Finding routes for drivers and deliveries, planning schedules, optimizing store layouts, etc. -- that's AI. If a path-finding algorithm that I can write on paper is AI, AI has completely lost all meaning. Let's not call graph traversal and sorting "AI" please.
i mean, these kinds of simple CS201 algorithms are still at the core of a lot of things that definitely count as AI by any reasonable definition. In particular, the best superhuman poker-playing systems use counterfactual regret minimization, which is literally just traversing a tree and updating small arrays of numbers at each node, augmented with some clever heuristics to make it scale to realistic poker scenarios.…
X is a component of Y does not imply X is Y.
I use lots of nails to build a house. A nail is not a house.