From: jjhudak@gmail.com   
      
   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 did a fair amount of 'AI' research in the 80s and early 90s.  The amount of   
   hype was amazing and it was all about 'branding' IMHO...a new science fiction   
   technology made real.  I bundled up for the first AI winter....I've moved to a   
   different climate    
   where I don't have to bundle up for the second AI winter.....   
      
   The really hard aspects of AI are knowledge discovery and composition which   
   has made some progress but nowhere near sensational. Ask a computer program to   
   design and build an automatic transmission, and then figure out why it doesn't   
   work as well when a    
   different ATF is used.....We are *really* far away from that.   
      
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