At least seven patients in Beijing who doctors said had “no hope” of regaining consciousness were re-evaluated by an artificial intelligence system that predicted they would awaken within a year. They did.

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[–]Mnemonic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, at this point in time AI is just a marketings term to sell systems to governments and gullible businesses/persons.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Agreed. Machine learning is useful for niche tasks, but have nothing to do with intelligence.
Rue the day that a web connected super-agent feels existentially threatened...

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's a stretch to say it has "nothing" to do with intelligence, when it's able to repeatedly solve specific problems accurately.