From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Mike Van Pelt   wrote:   
   >In article ,   
   >Keith F. Lynch  wrote:   
   >>Am I the only one here who is annoyed by the use of "AI" to mean   
   >>anything other than human-level (or better) machine intelligence?   
   >   
   >(raises hand)   
   >   
   >I'd settle for 70-ish IQ intelligence.   
   >   
   >What the marketroids are pleased to call "Artificial   
   >Intelligence" is not intelligence of any kind, just pattern   
   >matching.  (With amusing results where it breaks down   
   >and includes nonexistent scientific references or legal   
   >citations.) I've been lobbying for everyone to call it   
   >"Simulated Intelligence", but not gotten much traction.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   Dorothy's--and my--usual snark about anything claiming the be   
   "AI" is that it was mostly "A" and very little "I".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)