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From: JP Jamous
Date: Feb 6, 2017 10:47AM

Although I am not opposed to AI, I do second Sarah. AI still has a long way to go despite the major progress it has accomplished.

I think that even at its peak AI will never be smarter than the human mind. It can assist humans just like operating systems and database systems do. However, the bottom line remains can AI analyze without previous knowledge what is occurring? In other words, can it predict or hypothesize like a human mind can?

Notice that on Facebook, it states "Possible or possibly." If I ask my sighted wife, she can immediately tell me oh, "this is a picture of a male with black hair, brown eyes, bla, bla, bla"

So having that definite and not possible description is critical to a sightless user.