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(6,913 posts) Sun Dec 7, 2025, 06:17 PM Sunday

TURBO AI!!!!! [View all]

I just saw an add for a vending machine - The Genius Vend AI Smart vending machine. Yep, an AI vending machine - is that dumb or what?

Remember "Turbo"? It all started with "Turbo Pascal". It became the go-to product name prefix for software and other tech products. Everything became "Turbo". Turbo-this, Turbo-that. It lives on in TurboTax.

Same with the i prefix - started with iPhone. And "e". There are all sorts of iThnigs and eThings.

"AI" - a step up from "Intelligent", which is a step up from "Smart".

Well, the new Turbo is AI. Everything has to be "AI enabled" - whether it is or not. My guess is that about 90% of "AI" is just plain old software. Not even "smart" or "intelligent".

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