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   On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:08:29 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Cindy Hamilton  writes:   
   >>On 2023-08-10, micky  wrote:   
   >>> No one in popular news talked about AI 6 months ago and all of sudden   
   >>> it's everywhere.   
   >>   
   >>I promise you, people in the programming business have been talking   
   >>about it for a long while.   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>An AI doesn't need to pass the Turing test to be considered an AI.   
   >>   
   >>> 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?   
   >>   
   >>Here.  This will get you started:   
   >>   
   >>https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/AI-Ar   
   ificial-Intelligence   
   >   
   >The term "AI" has been misused by media and most non-computer scientists.  The   
   >current crop "AI" tools (e.g. chatGPT) are not artificial intelligence, but   
   >rather simple statistical algorithms based on a huge volume of pre-processed   
   >data.   
   >   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model   
   >   
   >  "As language models, they work by taking an input text and repeatedly   
   >   predicting the next token or word"   
   >   
   >Which leads to   
   >   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent   
      
   That's exactly what I thought. Yet these ignoramuses who hardly   
   understand the Web software they use everyday keep burping about this   
   AI stuff when they probably would fail at learning Basic.   
      
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