Quote from: spirali on September 14, 2018, 08:55:24 AM

No, at least in the sense of machine learning which is behind all the latest AI advancements. I'll just quote this answer https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-artificial-intelligence-and-algorithms as I find it accurate:

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An algorithm is a structured method. A step-by-step instruction guide. A recipe in a cook book is an algorithm, for example. Computers run algorithms, since they are very good at following clear instructions, and doing exactly what they are told.

Artificial Intelligence is a research field in Computer Science. It investigates how to construct specific algorithms which behave in a way which can be deemed intelligent in some way or other. For example, an algorithm which implements a model that gets refined with experience or which parses a data set to build a model is essential for Machine Learning, a subfield of AI that deals with systems which adapt in a way which is not unlike the human concept of learning. There are many other subfields of AI: planning, reasoning, knowledge representation, ...

When people think of artificial intelligence, one of the first things that comes to mind is IBM's "Deep Blue" which defeated Gary Kasparov in chess. On its wikipedia page, we see reasons why technically it may not be considered AI at all, even though the general public and many with tech backgrounds believe it to represent the pinnacle of AI development for its time.

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Design

Deep Blue employed custom VLSI chips to execute the alpha-beta search algorithm in parallel,[13] an example of GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence) rather than of deep learning which would come a decade later. It was a brute force approach, and one of its developers even disclaimed that it was artificial intelligence at all.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)#Design

Likewise, many consider self driving cars to represent artificial intelligence.

However it can be said that many "autonomous cars" on the road today do not fall under the definition of AI you posted from quora. They do not contain deep learning, neural nets or any of those fundamental AI design principles. Yet the media often labels them "artificial intelligence".

Anyways the sad truth here may be the media inaccurately labels many things "artificial intelligence" which are not. When the media does this, it could open the door to bitcoin's supply algorithm being labeled artificial intelligence. Due to diminishing of standards.