Re: Inside an IBM z17

Retrograde  <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

>
I was sorry to see even the purveyors of mainframe solutions are
obliged to slather their marketing material with the phrase "AI" from
the get-go.  Here is the first paragraph on that IBM fact sheet, pure
horse-pucky.  Oh wow, the Z17 comes with AI built in?  How many
funloops is it capable of?*

This is because nobody actually knows what AI is, so the marketing people
can use the word with impunity and freely tag it to anything from chairs
to rice cookers.

Traditionally AI is anything that attempts to emulate human behaviour that
doesn't actually work.  Chess programs and expert systems were AI until
people actually made them work, and then they ceased to be AI.
--scott


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