XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.home.repair   
      
   On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:23:57 -0400, micky    
   wrote:   
      
   >In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:03:48 GMT, Cindy Hamilton   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>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.   
   >   
   >That's why I said "popular", to exclude that sort of thing.   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >Okay, but doesn't it have to be more than a single purpose algorithm?   
   >Otherwise, cars have had AI since computerized fuel injection, but   
   >nobody called it that.   
   >   
      
   Good Lawd! Next It'll be our turn signals that are AI   
   Intuitive...Jeesh!   
      
   (I'm just about at the point where this AI nonsense is going to end up   
   in my Plonk! file.)   
      
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