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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 8/11/2023 4:49 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > A woman I met at a family event recently asked me what I thought of AI. I   
   started talking about Leibniz and his speculations, Charles Babbage's   
   Differential Engine, Isaac Asimov's robot books. Well, she let me have the   
   limelight; thank you.   
   > Later I found out that what she had in mind was ChatGPT and OpenAI. It's   
   amazed millions, created a rush of books (including ChatGPT for Dummies), and   
   fuelled a whole new debate. "AI" has replaced "algorithms", which replaced   
   "apps", which replaced "   
   programs".   
   >   
   > Ed   
      
   Every technology needs to be classified.   
      
   CharGPT is about as useful as OCR. OCR is about 99% accurate.   
   You've just run 200 pages through the scanner. Now what...   
      
   Voluminous output, that must be scrupulously checked.   
      
   An "advisor", not a "boss".   
      
   A robust source of beer bong pictures.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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