Ask HN: When is something ‘AI’?

2 points by casabarata ↗ HN
It’s become a buzzword and I wonder where the line is drawn. When can you call something AI? Is a simple JS bot that plays tic tac toe considered AI?

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Well every particular case has its own explanation. As for, I`m working in a growing Career sphere. Recently, we have launched innovative Resume Builder powered by AI - https://skillroads.com/ Re our algorithm - it helps people writing their resume, suggest skills and remind about tasks we've done on a previous job. That's exactly what market needs and our AI Career Builder does. Thanks to our solution there is no need to force yourself writing your resume or cover letter now — just insert basic data into a system and get professional personalized resume or cover letter instantly, list of job opportunities suitable for you according to your preferences and suggestions and interview/onboarding help. Answering your question - in our case - it`s way more than a simple JS bot that plays tic tac toe.
Well, every particular case has its own explanation. For example, there's rather hype topic in career industry connected with AI, its different chatbots that help recruiters to contact and sent quick answers to applicants, it's Google Careers - https://careers.google.com/, and Leap.ai -https://leap.ai/, launched by ex-Googlers, that helps job seekers in their job search, ATS systems that help in processing resumes, and AI career builder - https://skillroads.com/, that helps get all application documents ready and provides interview help. All these systems use different algorithms and learn from the previous experience.