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by iancmceachern 1010 days ago
Why is this being down voted? It's not meant as a negative question, but honest curiosity.

It's been on my mind since watching a vintage episode of "Computer Chronicles" recently on the coming AI boom, in the 80s. I'm not aware of any of those companies being still around, so I could not help but wonder what's different now.

Here is the episode:

https://youtu.be/_S3m0V_ZF_Q?si=2XrE4nnw1hB4X1xy

Real talk, to he fair, I've helped architect, design and bring to market several successful "AI" products in the medical space. There are good, useful, value add applications for the tech out there. But also, to be fair, I've always seen companies that don't call themselves AI companies be successful. For example, a surgical robotics company that calls itself a surgical robotics company, that uses some AI to enable certain value add features, I've seen success there. A company that calls itself an "AI company" that does robotic surgery, I've not seen those types of companies be successful.