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Old 02-02-2026, 09:51 AM   #648
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@un_pogaz: IMO AI is not intelligent and never will be using the current architecture. But it's still useful, it doesn't have to be either intelligent or right 100% of the time to still be useful. For instace, it is, *vastly* more efficient at say searching for relevant information in many topics, than doing a Google search. You just have to remember to verify its results. If you shed the prejudice and actually use AI keeping in mind its strengths and weaknesses you will give yourself a nice productivity boost. For example, this whole bookshelf view that you sent the original PR for was actually based on an older PR generated using AI.

As for using AI in calibre, it will continue to be present, and used where it makes sense, in an opt-in manner. I am really not interested in debating this because I am tired of irrational people going either AI is nonsense or AI is Terminator. It's neither. In its present form it's a productivity boost for humans, in some contexts, when used judiciously.

An opt-in feature harms no one. I am *perfectly* comfortable simply ignoring anyone that takes issue with an opt-in feature. I have spent my life doing things that many many people have told me I should not do. This is one more.

And that's the last you will be hearing from me on the subject of AI.
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