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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is just a marketing term. AI only has meaning inside the context of Science Fiction stories. Thus, AI means whatever a company wants it to mean. What Is AI Depends On The Year In the history of “Machine Learning” (ML) algorithms, the latest and greatest technology that ML can do tends to be called “AI”. When speech to text was first done using statistical pattern matching way back in the 1990s, despite the fact that it needed to be trained on each user’s voice for a good hour, it was called AI by some marketing folks....

AI Is A Moving Goalpost Artificial Intelligence does not exist. Artificial General Intelligence does not actually mean anything. Both of these things come from Science-Fiction writing. Both of these things have been co-opted by companies selling Large Language Model technology. Machine Learning is a technology, and it underlies ALL of this. Good and bad. Both AI and AGI are marketing terms, and in the last 4 years, they each have had their meaning changed, multiple times, by the people who are selling them....

It’s Been a Stressful Time Moved, In a Hurry Got Laid Off Web Server Died January The landlord tells us he’s raising the rent. The amount is significant. Real talk. We could have fought it and won, but it also would have meant literally having to fight every year. That isn’t worth it. We started looking in a hurry. February We found an apartment. It’s cheaper by $500 per month BEFORE the rent hike the landlord is asking for....

Once again, over on YouTube, the very pervasive Linus Media Group channel, Short Circuit, did a review on an Andoid based eInk tablet. They don’t seem to understand or care what this device is actually for, and they treat it like a faulty phone that can’t make calls, and like a bad tablet that can’t play video right. LMG have done the same treatment to similar products going back at least three years....