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I can't believe this is still a thing.

Then again, I felt the same way when I studied it at university almost 20 years ago. It was pretty obviously a pipe dream then, too.

>>vanniv+(OP)
I thought so on first glance too, but from what I've heard from someone who worked there, it's working software and it makes a lot of money. That's the opposite of a pipe dream, even if far short of AGI.

>>magnif+od
Is it making real money, or speculative money on the moon shot premise that AGI will rule it all if successful?

I worked at an AI company before, and it was the latter.

>>yters+Gk
My understanding is mostly the latter, but definitely also the former, but it's based off of "I worked there, but our customer list isn't public so I can't tell you who" type statements like you'll see elsewhere.

If I had to guess what it's been actually used for, I'd wager it's money laundering or counter-terrorism type stuff; it's fairly well suited to finding connections between people and entities given a large data-set, and unlike many ML models, it can tell you why it thinks someone is suspicious, which might be needed for justifying further investigation. This is a completely wild-ass guess though so take with a giant grain of salt.

>>aidenn+0n
Yes that was the sort of usecase for the AI company I worked at, similar data mining competing with Palantir.