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Let's just say it's not so clear. Limited mechanical computers of various principles humans have made since Antiquity, analog devices to compute various things were being made even before electricity. Well, even the known scene about Archimedes, water, crown and "eureka" is that. Flying machines - the same, though we wouldn't have airplanes until good enough propulsion.
Romans and Byzantines would even make mechanic servants to pour wine, or devices playing music.
It's rather that people wouldn't have any context to think about such specifics. But they didn't consider such things impossible.
While Pi is still not 4, just as it wasn't anywhere near 4 in Sargon the Great's time. I mean, depends on the geometry chosen.
I did in the comment you were answering to, so made such a guess.
The sceptical attitude is to the cargo cult of "innovation" without understanding the matters in question.
Dunno what "AI" is, but knowing enough about ML takes a few evenings. It's not a complex matter. All the market value is not in complexity, it's in datasets.
Something extrapolating datasets won't be more useful by being "more developed".
Then you should have said that in the beginning and there'd be no argument. Only then this have nothing to do with all these bullshit companies, because what they are doing is snake oil, not "AI".
I'm with you on the current use of machine learning being snake oil but I never said anything about ML. I'm not sure how my first post was unclear. You just made a lot of assumptions.
According to Google I am using the term correctly.
Edit: I was apparently too tired to see that you wrote machine learning in your initial reply
Edit 2: I feel like this discussion has gone way off topic and I am done with it. The OP claimed that we will not see real self-driving cars within our lifetime and I disagree with that