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Comment Re:Amazing post (Score 1) 496

Working out is beneficial for muscle toning and strengthening the heart and increasing oxygen intake, but it's not effecient at all for losing weight.

In fact, heavy exercise can have the opposite effect. Most of us work up an appetite and gorge shortly after a hard workout.

The body says, "Yo ... if you gonna be working this hard, let's get some fuel."

Weight loss is a matter of eating fewer calories. That's all.

Comment Re:Ultracompetent robots (Score 1) 112

Don't bullshit me. I grew up with this shit and I know it better than you do.

AI is AI. It's the attempt to make a machine as human-like as possible.

When we found that AI is dang near impossible, we called it other things and left AI to be something that we could, actually, maybe, perhaps, do.

AI is not doable. If it were, we would make computers that refused to work because their Facebook account had been deactivated.

Comment Re:Ultracompetent robots (Score 1) 112

Search is a database look-up on steroids. Computer behaviour that is hard to grasp at the surface is not AI.

Siri is simple. It's voice-to-text conversion and the text is used as search criteria. Some of the more common phrases are programmed like, "Siri, where am I?"

That voice-to-text is entered into a search engine just like we normally do and predictable things happen.

Siri then reverses the operation by performing text-to-speech conversion.

It's slicker'n mocking bird shit on a sycamore limb, but it's dang sure not even close to AI.

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