Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty Python Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2026 21:47:01 +0100 Lines: 46 Message-ID: <5fnl2mxmgp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <6decndo7ib2Df8z0nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> <10iu02q$1029n$12@dont-email.me> <10iu3g7$11u10$3@dont-email.me> <10iutjt$1c0aq$2@dont-email.me> <10j5ics$3ohc6$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10j6g96$3mtri$2@dont-email.me> <6WF5R.776532$79B9.732913@fx14.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xGLoPstjB4bKgA9qxvuLsQ2H1ENfKInVvYEdYRs0HI32vWcyvr X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:P8smdSp7LuIvSMjYK0Q3B6m9aKE= sha256:3Wk8vfxPOQkfXV+Q/oCAv3WBSZWaks5qXqyrbmCTE4Y= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <6WF5R.776532$79B9.732913@fx14.iad> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80352 alt.folklore.computers:233078 On 2026-01-02 03:18, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-01-01, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:12:29 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote: >>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: >>> >>>> Waldek Hebisch wrote: >>>> >>>>> But are 'expert systems' really AI? >>>> >>>> What is really “AI”? At one point, the argument was over whether >>>> computers could “think”. Then you had to define “thinking”, and >>>> somebody tried to settle the question by saing: “thinking is what >>>> computers cannot do”. >>>> >>>> The only succinct definition of “AI” I ever saw was: “solving NP >>>> problems in polynomial time”. >>> >>> It was always rather flexible. Currently it’s a label you put on things >>> to attract venture capital or other forms of finance. >> >> Best definition yet. It's already started with the 'smart' phone but I'm >> waiting for the marketers of consumer goods to tack AI onto frying pans >> and everything else. > > "If it can done, it should be done." That's one of a collection of sayings > that someday I'll compile into an essay titled "Memes that Will Destroy the > World". > > Back when electronics became cheap, remember how clocks were incorporated > into just about everything? I had a ball-point pen with a clock in it. Yes! I had one. Useless thing, though. Not good as a ballpen, it wasn't. > >> It wasn't very smart but it was sad to see Roomba go under. If nothing >> else it was good for terrorizing cats. > > I won't ever have a smart speaker, and I'll be damned if I'm going > to have a vacuum cleaner that cases the joint and reports back to > the mother ship. Besides, I have better ways to entertain the cats. I like the idea of a robot that actually cleans the house. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;