May We Never ....

[StephenJK]

20 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

This one is close to my heart and will annoy me forever. Everything is a computer today. Phones, streamers, some DACs, music servers, etc... They all are computers. 

 

Perhaps getting rid of the term computer audio means that because everything is computer based, the term is redundant. Audio = computer audio, unless specified as analog based :~)

My pet peeve is the incredible misuse of Artificial Intelligence, or AI.  I work (partly) with developing automation schemes for mining machines and I'm getting tired of saying "It's not AI, it's just a program".

[StephenJK]

4 hours ago, Richard Dale said:

The term has become synonymous with neural networks and machine learning, when it used to cover a range of technologies such a rule based systems, logic programming and genetic algorithms. On the upside, AI never used to work when I studied it as a student a long time ago, but now it does thanks to the hugely more powerful computation and data sets we now have available. Neural networks aren’t very good at explaining how they came to make a decision and so I’m sure the old fashioned ‘expert systems’ approach will come back in some form.

I remember the promise of AI on Compuserve in the mid 80’s. 
 

Hah, I say.  Hah.
 

Thirty years on - nothing has changed. A program is a program.  
 

Except for Tron, of course.