From: peterwieck33@gmail.com   
      
   MPffffff..... I have sat on my fingers long enough.     
      
   Apologies in advance to all blondes everywhere, including my wife!    
      
   A natural blonde dyes her hair a dark shade of brunette - and then says to her   
   husband:  Look! Artificial intelligence!"   
      
   That is about as seriously as I take AI as it affects my daily life. Sure,   
   reading X-rays, doing certain types of surgery, and many other repetitive, but   
   exacting tasks is well suited to a process that does not get tired, does not   
   get blurry vision, does    
   not ignore something or similar, and can even learn as it repeats those tasks   
   ways to do so with fewer steps - but that is hardly "intelligence" - there is   
   no self-awareness, just increasingly more complex responses to a defined   
   problem.     
      
   But, a robo-caller, as much as it/he/she may try to be 'real' is so obviously   
   artificial as to make be very sad for those who might be fooled. And robotic   
   phone-trees - such as many companies use to avoid having humans on the payroll   
   - are the furthest    
   possible thing from Intelligent.    
      
   Peter Wieck   
   Melrose Park, PA    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)