XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: robin_listas@es.invalid
On 2026-01-02 03:18, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2026-01-01, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:12:29 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes:
>>>
>>>> Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But are 'expert systems' really AI?
>>>>
>>>> What is really “AI”? At one point, the argument was over whether
>>>> computers could “think”. Then you had to define “thinking”, and
>>>> somebody tried to settle the question by saing: “thinking is what
>>>> computers cannot do”.
>>>>
>>>> The only succinct definition of “AI” I ever saw was: “solving NP
>>>> problems in polynomial time”.
>>>
>>> It was always rather flexible. Currently it’s a label you put on things
>>> to attract venture capital or other forms of finance.
>>
>> Best definition yet. It's already started with the 'smart' phone but I'm
>> waiting for the marketers of consumer goods to tack AI onto frying pans
>> and everything else.
>
> "If it can done, it should be done." That's one of a collection of sayings
> that someday I'll compile into an essay titled "Memes that Will Destroy the
> World".
>
> Back when electronics became cheap, remember how clocks were incorporated
> into just about everything? I had a ball-point pen with a clock in it.
Yes! I had one. Useless thing, though. Not good as a ballpen, it wasn't.
>
>> It wasn't very smart but it was sad to see Roomba go under. If nothing
>> else it was good for terrorizing cats.
>
> I won't ever have a smart speaker, and I'll be damned if I'm going
> to have a vacuum cleaner that cases the joint and reports back to
> the mother ship. Besides, I have better ways to entertain the cats.
I like the idea of a robot that actually cleans the house.
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