Amish Rodney on the auction block!

This is why you are the wind beneath my wings.

Well, AI is a huge umbrella of computer science topics, a lot of things that individually wouldn't be considered "intelligent".

I think though at some point we will see software that interacts so much like a sentient being that it will be difficult to not call it sentient. However you won't be able to point to any single part of it and say that's what did it, that's what crossed the line.

This is why you are the wind beneath my wings.

It's always good to have a partner in crack. That way you have somebody to blame.

I'm going through a bit of a Music Man phase.

I'm thinking about getting my dad a plaque saying, "I consider the hours I spend with a cue in my hand are golden" that he can put over his pool table (my sister gave him a very pretty cuestick for Christmas).

Was it hard because we didn't know how to do it yet?

This. See timeline here: [link]

1969 John Pierce of Bell Labs said automatic speech & voice recognition will not be a reality for several decades because it requires artificial intelligence.

See also the official voice recognition page of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence:

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If the research on a topic began in AI labs, then yes, I consider it AI even after it's widely available. See here for a list of current successes:

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I'm thinking about getting my dad a plaque saying, "I consider the hours I spend with a cue in my hand are golden" that he can put over his pool table

Hee. That's awesome.

I had a philosoph professor in college who liked to wind up statements with "And then you got trouble!"

There were a couple of us who had a hard time not responding with "Right here in River City!"

I thought we were debating "what is AI" rather than "Have we created a robot that passes the Turing Test". The TT is still my benchmark for genuine intelligence. Then again, I've met people who flunk it...

My cousin has a PhD in computer science from Oxford and worked/s on AI in terms of making computer eyes able to track an object as it moves against a background. Apparently it's really really hard, and now Microsoft pays him lots of money to develop alternatives to Google.

If the research on a topic began in AI labs, then yes, I consider it AI even after it's widely available. See here for a list of current successes:

I think that's a weak stance. There's no reason one branch of research can't have offshoots or uses in other branches. And the whole wide use is or is not AI is a straw man of your own invention.

What does Emmett think W. is? Cause I'm assuming at 9 that he doesn't use mom's moniker "That Fucker"?