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  • Can Intelligence Really Be “Artificial”?

    I’ve never been too much in favor of the term “artificial” as applied to what we now call “Artificial Intelligence.”  There has always been something about the term that just doesn’t seem right.  It seems to me that what we call intelligence is the ability to deduce a result from two or more independent concepts,…

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  • A Few More Thoughts On AI

    AI [Artificial Intelligence] is so hot these days (I’m writing this on 3/10/2024) I feel I have to comment on it.  Generally, I’m not too much in favor of writers using AI to “write” a book or story or any kind of written communication.  AI takes away the personality of the writer which always infuses…

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  • AI and Me

    I don’t know what I think about AI (“artificial intelligence” for the uninitiated).  Like any new advance in technology, especially technology of computers, it has the power to be useful to those of us who use computers daily, or even less often.  The search engine I use most often is now advertising that it is…

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  • The Writer And The App

    The November, 2017, issue of The Writer contains a couple of articles about apps for writers that can (potentially, at least) make the physical act of writing easier.  My first reaction when I saw the magazine was very much in the realm of Ebenezer Scrooge: “Bah”, I said, “I don’t need an app to do my writing.  I…

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