Actually, it isn't. See my post in the last thread. What is up with all of these "Al" stories? There is a lot in tech news that isn't being covered while every other story on the front page is about Al. Did I miss something?

It doesn't exist yet. Neural networks and genetic algorithms are NOT SENTIENT or anywhere close. It's going to be a few decades before we have anything resembling true intelligence.

Heck, even the HAL of HAL 9000 stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic computer, so Clarke was still making the argument that the computer of 2001 had only reached the brink of sentience and couldn't handle a moral dilemma.

This is the kind of place that a VC takes his victims to convince them to invest in his schemes. If Facebook is doing this, you should too. They buy it hook, line, and sinker. They lose all their money, and the VC goes onto the next victims and gets his fees on the next startup.

Rinse.
Repeat.

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Exactly. Miss Mash has picked up from the mainstream media that you create controversy to get people's panties in a wad, and that gets more views/clicks.

This entire non-story is just a big troll for that reason. On Stack Overflow, nobody knows your gender. And if you're a new poster, sorry, you're a noob just like on ANY OTHER FORUM, and you will be treated that way until you have proven yourself. I have been doing embeded systems for decades, and there is no way for me to go onto the Raspberry Pi forums and post some of the projects that I have worked on for the $5 Pi Zero. Stuff that no one else has put there. So it works against them every now and then, but they have to do something to keep the overall quality good. Imagine every one of the Raspberry Forums being overrun by people asking how to install Internet Explorer over and over.

People on Stack Overflow are usually fair, and the really cheeky responses do tend to get downvoted. For instance, a question having a statement like "I know I'm not supposed to be doing X the Y way, but I have to do it the Y way because of some legacy software that the vendor forces us to use" might be met with one guy saying "Why would you want to do it Y way? That's a terrible way to do it" and would be rightfully downvoted.