On 17 Jan 2026, at 18:57, Bill anotherdrunkensot@gmail.com wrote:
Allegations are one thing, facts are, of course, something else.
People are calling anything they don't understand AI.
Largely a marketing term, and aggressively hyped. I’m retired now but 40+ years in IT meant I saw the same old wine being sold in different new bottles every few years.
A few years before AI one of our over-promoted marketing managers asked me why we weren’t using algorithms in our marketing software. I discovered that ‘algorithms’ was the buzzword of the day, so once I’d recovered from the shock I told him l, Dilbert-like, that we’d been using them quietly in the background for many years and in some parts of our marketing software we were well ahead of the curve in algorithmic complexity. That seemed to satisfy him.
> On 17 Jan 2026, at 18:57, Bill <anotherdrunkensot@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Allegations are one thing, facts are, of course, something else.
>
> People are calling anything they don't understand AI.
Largely a marketing term, and aggressively hyped. I’m retired now but 40+ years in IT meant I saw the same old wine being sold in different new bottles every few years.
A few years before AI one of our over-promoted marketing managers asked me why we weren’t using algorithms in our marketing software. I discovered that ‘algorithms’ was the buzzword of the day, so once I’d recovered from the shock I told him l, Dilbert-like, that we’d been using them quietly in the background for many years and in some parts of our marketing software we were well ahead of the curve in algorithmic complexity. That seemed to satisfy him.
