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How is everything AI-powered these days?

Do you guys mean template/rule/pattern based when you write AI-powered?

Once in a while someone posts something AI-powered and I will immediately check is there any breakthrough in this field, after testing product will get disappointed.

In my opinion AI-powered Sales Assistant, should check old/new customers, get information about their needs, check whether they need to buy product again, find new leads, tell Sales Manager about them, for further decision making and many more things it should capable of doing.

And all of them should be in automated/intelligent way, not

    if (hello|hi|dear) -> respond(Hi xyz,....)

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> In my opinion AI-powered Sales Assistant, should check old/new customers, get information about their needs, check whether they need to buy product again, find new leads, tell Sales Manager about them, for further decision making and many more things it should capable of doing.

Not to detract from your point, but as an aside I always find it interesting when comments like this are made.

I'll paraphrase a thought from Nick Bostrom in "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" that development in AI for the most part will be a series of small incremental steps, to the extent as to redefine our definition of AI as we solve each seemingly astonishing problem. The redefinition occurs as we understand how these solutions work, label them and let them become as familiar to us as Goal Trees, Rule-Based Expert Systems and Neural Nets are to us now.

Would we be as similarly disappointed at the level of intelligence of "AI" at a time when we do have products capable of doing as tuyguntn indicates?

> "Do you guys mean template/rule/pattern based when you write AI-powered? Once in a while someone posts something AI-powered and I will immediately check is there any breakthrough in this field, after testing product will get disappointed. ... And all of them should be in automated/intelligent way, not ..."

On this note, I can only mention the so-called "AI-Effect", to which many people are apparently susceptible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Everything is going to be increasingly AI powered as using neutral nets to tackle problems is becoming easier, cheaper and faster - though quality data sources are still hard to come across.

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