Re: Apropos of everything

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-12-11 22:14:22

There’s a program available for the Mac that applies some form of AI to organize data. I’m not going to say the name, because I always confuse it with another program. Anyway, my point doesn’t concern the program, which I really know nothing substantive about, but rather the opinions about sophisticated Mac users about this program. The opinion seems _sharply_ divided. Many speak superlatively of the program. Others disparage exactly the feature that is most praised—the AI, saying it just doesn’t get it right—‘and anyway, categorizing the data is the last thing I would refer to an algorithm.’

Well, it depends completely on how good the algorithm is. I am not on OS X, and I can’t evaluate the product. But I can say that I find it very hard to imagine categorizing data automatically by a method of my devise—as _opposed_ to artifical intelligence—and having that characterization help me in any ways but trivial ones.

Stephen Diamond

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