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Synthetic Intelligence
Synthetic Intelligence

AI is the current darling of the IT world. Some people expect that it will eliminate millions of jobs and make the remaining jobs far easier and more productive. Perhaps. But we must also be realistic about what AI can do for us. The term seems to imply actual intelligence that is produced artificially, rather than by humans. In this document, I suggest that it is really a facilitator of intelligence and has some of the external characteristics of intelligent behavior but may be better labeled “synthetic intelligence”.

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The Relevance of Data in the Age of AI
The Relevance of Data in the Age of AI

I have found that there are many who believe that having systems that can answer questions posed in human language with human language responses means that structured data is somehow passe. Nothing could be further from the truth. AI, driven by very large sets of text such as scanned Internet content can only give approximate answers to questions because the source of information is approximate. In fact, sometimes the patterns in the source text are so inconsistent that the resulting answer provided by the GenAI system can be unintentionally comical.

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