Speaking of AI, has anyone here encountered or used AI? Michio Kaku (https://mkaku.org/) and I share similar opinions about AI, that is when the hardware guys and gals create some very neat CPUs and such will we be able to compute stuff similar to what our nimble brains do in the lowest order. Hopefully by then the test robots will not create hardware that is beyond our capacity.
However, I just finished its use in a 28 sessions of radiation treatments in a weird machine. (see below). The radiation oncologist explained to me, in engineering terms, what it was to do. I appreciated that and now understand a little about it. The software has many algorithms of AI in it. While lying in the machine it stopped so the tech came out to tell me to stay still because the engineers were in to reboot it. I ask to speak to one and we had a nice chat while the process was going on. Wow, I must learn more.
After that I saw my doctor and asked him if he would like to train an 84-year-old fogy and retired engineer to assist his center. After laughter I withdrew my offer. Yes, I am too old for that stuff. A photo of a similar machine:
My ideas of AI are difficult to define since I know little of the technology yet. I assume it is not my brain going to waste, but a misunderstanding of the explanations I have read, except what Michio Kaku has articulated. He is so far above most contemporary scientists of today it has hard to understand all he says, but repeating his videos is helping me understand a tiny bit of Quantum theory. Don't ask about his String Theory, my jaw is still locked open!
