Is this SALAMI Intelligent?

This is not exactly new, but it’s always fun to watch Cory Doctorow sticking a pin in the AI-hype bubble.

I especially enjoyed the proposal of an Italian ex-M.P. to rename AI as “Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences” or SALAMI.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way

graphic shows a pyramid red-glowing indicator's, like HAL-9000's from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, merged with a representation of the Gartner Hype Cycle.

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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