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NNadir

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Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:52 PM Saturday

At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. [View all]

She called it "Augmented Intelligence." She clearly stated that it is unlike human intelligence, but that it can do things humans cannot do, which is to process and make sense of huge data sets so as to make them useful and subject to interpretation.

I rather liked that; I agree.

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