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by bodeadly 2398 days ago
Isn't "AI" pretty much snake oil. IIRC Artificial Intelligence used to mean a computer that could think like a person. But that just is not the case. Even with IBM ads with a computer talking to people saying it's going to fix the network and stop cyber attacks that is just complete nonsense. And it will probably always be nonsense because of course there's no way a computer can think like a person because a computer is not a person. It did not grow up and fall of it's bike and skin it's knee and take a road trip to the rock concert and meet someone and so on. AI is being used as a marketing term to compensate for the fact that sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms and the like are not particularly marketable even if they are useful.