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Thanks for giving this analogy, It made more sense than my imagination above.

If I understand correctly, it’s the design process, not glass, that used learning. Along the same analogy, I guess the sculpture in London (glass, here), which was designed using random walk (neural nets), would be the same: the sculpture in itself isn’t “random walk”, but the design process was.

(I couldn’t recall what was the name of the sculpture. Here’s the wiki link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Cloud )

Edit: I read the other comments and it’s getting more confusing! AI, from my school courses, would be implementation of algorithms like Hill climbing where a system is online: it takes some input, and tries its best to find a solution. Now if I take the output itself for use in, say, signal processing — that “output” would be a “device” to do something and won’t be an “AI device”. Does this make any sense at all? I’d love to get some pointers on this to read.




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