I get it
we'll soon have companies declaring that they've appointed smart-looking chairs to support executive decision making.
Then it will actually make sense to address the chair.
Finnish IT services firm Tieto has added software to a leadership team that oversees a recently formed data-focused business group. The bot, or "artificial intelligence agent," is referred to as Alicia T. It will have "the opportunity to participate in team meetings and cast a vote on business direction," according to the …
We actually have this. I skipped a recent client meeting because I already knew that the requested change would be rejected due to being dumb (and the requester could handle it themselves, in a way that wouldn't affect the other 70 thousand clients,) and sent a post it note saying NO instead, which was attached to the chair.
(they apparently had fun asking unrelated questions so they could laugh at the no response, but still, that didn't go into the minutes.)
Could we (journos and commentards allike) at El Reg stop using the term AI until it exists. Noone has invented an Artificial Intelligence yet so maybe we coud take the lead on killing the term until someone invents a machine capable of independent (i.e. not preprogrammed by a human) thought.
As noted by a number of other commentards recently 'machine leaarning' fits the bill more accurately in most cases. Not this one by the sounds of it.
There are people who seem to think a human equivalent electronic smarty may be here by 2040, personally I doubt it, a lot of those touting AI are the same as those touting IoT. They have something to sell and salesmen are not above stretching the truth a little, or, of course, outright lying to you.
Not too sure I would want to work in a company that uses a tarted up dealing machine to decide company policy.