re: #190 jvic

Otoh, sentient AI has been a decade away for the last fifty years. (And AI has been a synonym for ‘overpromise and underperform’.)
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I worked for a start-up that used AI technology. A more-than-viable business plan was run into the ground by the presiding soi-disant genius who allocated at most 10% of his time to the enterprise—and micromanaged. Instead of being well-off for life (and able to remain in this discussion), I am at serious financial risk (and must log out to work on my resume and powerpoint charts).

The Turing Test has still not been passed.

One promise of AI all these years has been viable machine translation. Hasn’t happened yet and I don’t see it coming about anytime soon.

Thank God, or my last line of employment would be out the window.

Try copying this simple, readily understandable (to humans) message into Google Translations and getting the “German” version. Bring it back here and I’ll show you the dozen ways AI/machine translation can screw the pooch and jump the shark on a four-paragraph comment.