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Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I had a professor in college that said when an AI problem is solved, it is no longer AI.

Computers do all sorts of things today that 30 years ago were the stuff of science fiction. Back then many of those things were considered to be in the realm of AI. Now they're just tools we use without thinking about them.

I'm sitting here using gesture typing on my phone to enter these words. The computer is analyzing my motions and predicting what words I want to type based on a statistical likelihood of what comes next from the group of possible words that my gesture could be. This would have been the realm of AI once, but now it's just the keyboard app on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

There's a name for it the phenomenon: the AI effect.

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