[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] 13 ways people in the Boston area are using artificial intelligence right now

[Barbara Mende]

 And I'll pardon all of you for running the article again.Barbara

    On Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 11:38:40 AM EDT, George Gamota <ggamota at stma-llc.com> wrote:  
 
 
Harry

Don’t worry, when I become President, I will pardon you.

George

  

From: LCTG <lctg-bounces+ggamota=stma-llc.com at lists.toku.us> On Behalf Of Harry Forsdick
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 8:33 AM
To: Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com>
Cc: Lex Computer Group <lctg at lists.toku.us>
Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] 13 ways people in the Boston area are using artificial intelligence right now

  

Bob,

  

You are right.  My bad.  I did this because I know that not everyone has a subscription to the Globe.  I did have some qualms about posting the article because I violated the copyright.  And again I am sorry for that.  

  

I trust when the copyright police come to put me in jail for this, someone will mention that I need to have some Wednesdays off to run the LCTG hybrid meeting system… (but not today since I’m on vacation :-)

  

— Harry

  

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 11:34 PM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:


To Everyone:

  

Please do not send entire articles to this mailing list. They make for huge downloads for those of us who use desktop email clients.

  

Also, articles tend to be sent here in extra-wide formats which do not display well in web mail interfaces.

  

And when included in subsequent replies as quoted previous content, the message threads become absolutely unreadable and unmanageable with clients or web interfaces. 

  

It is much more considerate to only post reference URLs, and not to expect everyone who receives the messages to want to slog through a giant article in non-text format just to get through to the actual email message.

  

If such extra-wide articles show up, the message itself is rendered unreadable, as it extends way beyond the viewing pane in web mail interfaces. 

  

We need a policy (if one is not already in place) to prevent this practice in the future.

  

Not everyone wants to read the entire article. We should have a choice, short of unsubscribing from this email list altogether. 

  

The reference URL is sufficient.

  

-- Bob Primak 

  

  

On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 07:38:09 AM EDT, Harry Forsdick <forsdick at gmail.com> wrote: 

  

  

Folks,

The more I look into ML/AI the more I think about my friends at MIT in the early days of AI.   I refer to "AI" this way (ML/AI) in honor of the predecessors of the current people doing ML/AI because my contemporaries were trying so hard to model the processes of how humans think.  These are the so-called pioneers of AI.  These are people at MIT like Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Terry Winograd, and Carl Hewitt.  

The MIT pioneers are very different from today's researchers.  The ML/AI researchers and developers have approached the problem extremely differently, and have been more successful in showing positive results.  But ML/AI don't address the problem with the intention of representing intelligence and the processes of creativity as the pioneers who struggled in the early days did, trying to mimic human intelligence.  

The question is, as with the researchers into airplanes who approached the problem initially by modeling birds by strapping large wings to people rather than the Wright Bros approach which skipped that part and went to something that worked, I suspect some day ML/AI will prevail and my friends on the upper floors of 545 Tech Square will be looked at like the bird wing guys of AI.

-- Harry

  


  
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