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Re:AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence by evrydayhustling on Saturday July 11, 2026 @06:09PM (#48876311)
Horizon was accounting software - where is the connection to expert systems?

Sounds like corporations can have bad motivations, and can make bad software - no AI required.

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Re:AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence by ben_w on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:50AM (#48879222)
> Horizon was accounting software - where is the connection to expert systems?

  "it's functionally about the same as basically all modern business systems"
> can make bad software - no AI required

All AI *is software*; and by the old definition of AI, almost all modern software *is AI*.

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Re:AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence by evrydayhustling on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:28AM (#48907495)
Disagree, words drift but they still mean things. Nobody building accounting software in the 90s called it AI (or even an expert systems, barring the most inventive salescritters).

Besides what kind of slippery slope argument is this? All software is AI, so if you do harm with software, AI is a harmful technology? Seems like a not very helpful model of the world.

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