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by: ohg...@gmail.com - Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:57 UTC

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 think it's a matter of definition. Unless and until an "AI" becomes self aware, it's not AI.

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