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   On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 2:43:50 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:   
   > No one in popular news talked about AI 6 months ago and all of sudden    
   > it's everywhere.    
   >    
   > The most recent discussion I heard was about "using AI to read X-rays    
   > and other medical imaging".    
   >    
   > They have computer programs that will "look" at, examine, x-rays etc.    
   > and find medical problems, sometimes ones that the radiologist misses.    
   >    
   > So it's good if both look them.    
   >    
   > But is it AI? Seems to me it one slightly complicated algorith and    
   > comes nowhere close to AI. The Turing test for example.    
   >    
   > And that lots of thigns they are calling AI these days are just slightly    
   > or moderately complicated computer programs, black boxes maybe, but not    
   > AI.    
   >    
   > What say you?   
      
   I think it's a matter of definition.  Unless and until an "AI" becomes self   
   aware, it's not AI.   
      
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