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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by votepaunchy on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:01PM (#15368640)
What is novel about "the internet"? We've been sending data over telegraph wires for nearly 200 years. The Internet is just someone else's cable.
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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by gue5t on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:21PM (#15368780)
Packet switching and distributed routing protocols.
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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by mbrumlow on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:05PM (#15368675)
That was my point, you just went back further in history than I did :p
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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by freehunter on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:23PM (#15368806)
Then your point is wrong. What's so novel about CPUs? We've had sand since the Earth was first formed!

I swear the tech industry has more luddites than the Amish.

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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by hyperbovine on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:05AM (#15371823)
The Amish are not luddites.
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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by freehunter on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:52AM (#15372854)
They are not capital-L official Luddites, but they could be classified as colloquial lowercase-L luddites.
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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by warent on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:30PM (#15369812)
Since when are cables such a unique idea? The telegraph is nothing more than a large number of fancy carrier pigeons as a service, which we've had since the 12th century at least.
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Re:Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? by Florin_Andrei on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:30PM (#15368872)
It's turtles all the way down to the Big Bang.
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