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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Sorry. I know that you feel you have your finger on the pulse of what the human race might, or might not, need from all things AI
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No, I don't feel that at all. Certainly some aspects of AI over the last 50 years approx are useful. OCR was once thought to be AI. Maybe it still is. It's certainly much better now than the groundbreaking launch by Ray Kurtzwiel in 1974 (nearly 50 years ago!). I think he works on AI in Google/Alphabet now. OCR'ed stuff still needs proofed by humans.
I'm just suspicious of hype and of course as Charlie Stross might say on the subject "follow the money".
If all this AI is so brilliant how come it's as difficult to spell check and grammar check as the mid 1980s? Proofing is aided by being able to read and annotate on eink.
I'm not fearing any kind of Skynet or Minority report scenario, just offering an antidote to hype.
Certainly the current crop of chatbots are more entertaining than the ones in the 1960s to 1990s.