[rajnathani]

AI is not a buzzword, try beating Go without machine learning. Just ignore the whole enterprise speak, and you'll see a lot of really cool things which are possible almost only by means of neural nets.

[idiotsecant]

Almost every technology buzzword is based on something interesting and useful that then gets used in as many unsuitable applications as possible.

[moralestapia]

I really like idea of blockchains and think it's a pretty clean and clever solution for many problems outside of crypto.

[idiotsecant]

Like what?

[moralestapia]

Anything requiring keeping an immutable track of provenance, for instance.

[idiotsecant]

How's that not crypto? Such a network needs to be run and achieve consensus, right? How's that work without the crypto part? It seems like what you're describing is Ethereum.

[PittleyDunkin]

Neural nets is a useful term that refers to a class of algorithms, though. "AI" doesn't appear to have any use beyond marketing to people who don't know what they want.

[ab5tract]

Genuinely curious what you mean by "beating Go". Do you mean "beating exceptional human Go players"?

[rajnathani]

Yes, meant the latter. But given how Go was spoken about pre-AlphaGo about the only 2-player piece-game "not beaten by AI", it's maybe implied here.