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Oracle, like so many other enterprise IT specialists, is talking up plans to integrate machine learning into its software. What the Redwood City giant hopes will set it apart from competitors is the way it plans to use those features. Where rivals have been touting AI and machine learning as a way to overhaul and redefine …

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  1. Mikel

    Oracle AI

    I can't wait to see their PCA AI pricing. "Per Contemplated Alternative". It ought to be hilarious until I remember that my tax dollars will actually be buying it.

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    1. AMBxx Silver badge
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      Coat

      Re: Oracle AI

      I just thought they were breeding cows.

      Mine's the one with the turkey baster in the pocket.

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    2. TheVogon
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      Re: Oracle AI

      "Big Red says it wants to integrate intelligence into existing apps"

      Calculating how much extra money can we rinse you for?! Beep, Beep...

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  2. Mage Silver badge

    A good plan

    Now figure AI that's not fragile and not annoying.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/crash-how-computers-are-setting-us-up-disaster

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  3. Stevie

    Bah!

    Thanks to the typeface El Reg defaults to in m'browser, every time they write "Ay Eye" I read it as "AL".

    I sat for a good few seconds trying to get the earworm "Practical AL" out of my head.

    Typeface designers! It's stupid and lazy to use the same glyph for cap i and lower case L!

    also:

    Computer software manufacturers! Stop repurposing well-known acronyms for new and unrelated uses!

    (Yes I know it's not a proper acronym.)

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  4. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

    AI?

    Now with Genuine People Personalties™?

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  5. oxfordmale78

    The dawn of the rise of AI bots is here. If they make these bots intelligent, they probably do not want to work for Oracle.

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