From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Retrograde   wrote:   
   >   
   >I was sorry to see even the purveyors of mainframe solutions are   
   >obliged to slather their marketing material with the phrase "AI" from   
   >the get-go.  Here is the first paragraph on that IBM fact sheet, pure   
   >horse-pucky.  Oh wow, the Z17 comes with AI built in?  How many   
   >funloops is it capable of?*   
      
   This is because nobody actually knows what AI is, so the marketing people   
   can use the word with impunity and freely tag it to anything from chairs   
   to rice cookers.   
      
   Traditionally AI is anything that attempts to emulate human behaviour that   
   doesn't actually work.  Chess programs and expert systems were AI until   
   people actually made them work, and then they ceased to be AI.   
   --scott   
      
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)