Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by ipsum2 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:36PM (#26651165)

Reminds me when X-rays first were discovered, everyone claimed their product contained them, including X-ray headache tablets, golf balls, stove polish, razor blades. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/rg.242035157 for some fun pictures.

I won't be surprised when AI toothbrushes come out.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by TecoAndJix on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:48PM (#26651353)

The Ad for the "x-ray stove polish" lists "cannot explode" as a feature which makes me wonder about their competitions polish

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by banana_giraffe on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:55PM (#26651435)

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19060225.2.77&e=-------en--2...

Exploding Stove Polish was apparently a problem. Gotta wonder what chemical it was causing the problem.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by 0xcde4c3db on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:29PM (#26653952)

The problem might be less with the chemicals in the polish per se and more with the mechanical processes surrounding its manufacture and use. Many otherwise safe substances become explosive when aerosolized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by svieira on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:22PM (#26652630)

> Stove Polish Explodes. [by the Associated Press ]

> LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 Mrs. Sylvia Olds wife of George Olds, of Gardena was probably fatally burned by the explosion of a bottle of stove polish today.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by ketralnis on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:06PM (#26651598)

That's exactly why they say it

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by kemitche on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:06PM (#26652406)

See also "Clean bathrooms!" billboards when road tripping.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by dwighttk on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:30PM (#26652726)

Usually the goal...

Our toothpaste contains 0% raw sewage!

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by Buttons840 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:14PM (#26654414)

And the picture of devils (?) dancing on the stove? Who are they marketing to?

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by unanswered on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:57PM (#26651461)

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/641

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by dr_orpheus on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:07PM (#26652420)

This still happens a lot with some more mundane things. I picked up a bag of sugar the other day that said "gluten-free sugar!"

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by beambot on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:52PM (#26653036)

It doesn't help when formal classifications such as "organic" muddy the waters:

"Of course it's organic, it comes from a plant!"

"That's not what organic means..."

"Guh, wat?"

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by dublin on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:28PM (#26653938)

It's generally a good idea to avoid more than trace amounts of inorganic foods. Just Sayin'...

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by Lammy on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:52PM (#26653617)

Relevant Achewood: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02112003

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by banana_giraffe on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:38PM (#26651207)

That's happened:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by Jugurtha on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:24PM (#26651846)

Oh, the puns I can make... DentAI care?

In French: Intelligencive Artificielle? ÉmAI brillant? Recarie Neural Networks? MolAIre.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by merhard on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:58PM (#26651478)

But what if I want to put my toothbrush in the blockchain as well?

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by djoldman on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:38PM (#26651196)

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by choxi on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:47PM (#26651340)

  if brush_time < 2.minutes
    return "Brush longer"
  else if brush_time > 5.minutes
    return "Brush less"
  end

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by sidpatil on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:10PM (#26651656)

I.e. using bleeding-edge decision-tree models to disrupt the oral hygiene space.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by dwighttk on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:31PM (#26652743)

Lotta bleeding edges in the oral hygiene space

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by dublin on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:29PM (#26653953)

In the real world, most AI is just a bunch of IF statements, anyway, just abstracted away enough that it's no longer obvious.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by tgb on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:51PM (#26651381)

Some of those do seem to be claiming to contain X-rays but others, like the golf balls, just seem to be using it as a brand name. I don't see the problem with that: we don't complain about the lack of snakes in Python. The "calling everything AI" problem seems to be exclusively claiming that your product actually uses AI.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by joe_the_user on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:05PM (#26653187)

If computing ability were to become as cheap and low-power as human/animal brains, you could have the full capacities of a present day dentist contained in the area of a present day powered tooth. Just make the bristles freely moving, add some hard pieces for plaque and you have a thing that could use that intelligence.

Which is to say, sure, today "AI" is just a marketing term but that's 'cause they don't have it, not because real intelligence isn't something that would be very useful in many, seemingly trivial places.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by mimixco on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:37PM (#26654645)

That already happend, in 2019. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by wunderflix on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:09PM (#26651648)

I am pretty sure there is an AI toothbrush already...

(Haven't googled it yet, I swear!)

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by at_a_remove on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:40PM (#26652084)

It's the new "nano-."

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by dublin on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:26PM (#26653925)

I promise you the AI toothbrushes ARE coming. Just wait...

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by mandelbrotwurst on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:14AM (#26656636)

Yeah, I once had an employer offer a dental plan from a company who sent us all wi-fi capable toothbrushes complete with a mobile app with the promise of discounts in our group rate in exchange for letting the things phone home.

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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by anaganisk on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:57AM (#26658835)

World's top developers create awesome things out of curiosity and the best application MBAs find for any great innovation is Ads.

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