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March 6, 2017 03:48 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YM8TxBVjbVE/chatbots-rebranded.html
Deflationary Intelligence: in 2017, everything is "AI"
Ian Bogost (previously) describes the "deflationary" use of "artificial intelligence" to describe the most trivial computer science innovations and software-enabled products, from Facebook's suicide detection "AI" (a trivial word-search program that alerts humans) to the chatbots that are billed as steps away from passing a Turing test, but which are little more than glorified phone trees, and on whom 40% of humans give up after a single conversational volley. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YM8TxBVjbVE/chatbots-rebranded.html
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