Working in the back of a grocery store has its own set of rules : if the food is a banana, send it to produce ; if it is a cookie, the snack aisle ; if it is cumin, shelve it with the spices. But what if the load of bananas has spoiled, the cookies have crumbled & the cumin is caked? These rules & exceptions govern every grocery store & neighborhood mart. At the beginning they are rigid ; over time, more exceptions are discovered : is that a plantain? Dubai chocolate : dessert or baking supply? Coding literally means encoding these rules & exceptions into software. Pre-AI, these programs were rigid. AI handles the exceptions : an image search identifies the unfamiliar fruit as Musa paradisiaca, a brother of the banana. 1 But we do not need the world’s most brilliant model to handle if-plantain-then-produce logic. The newest wave of AI is a robust if-then decider. Jev 2 & SemIf 3 answer questions like these in hundreds of milliseconds at a 99% reduction in cost compared to tradition
