Tech Talk on ABC Radio - Artificial Intelligence is the wrong name

Do you think the term Artificial Intelligence is being misused for things which aren't intelligent at all?  

Have we come to trust the output too much, partly because of the name? Could we have fallen for a marketing trick? 

Prediction market odds are increasingly being reported as news, what are they and can they be gamed?

Communication failures during the recent Victorian fires, why the big ABC AM stations are an important backup in times of emergency.

Peter Marks, mobile software developer and technology commentator from Access Informatics, joined Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife with the latest tech news. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/nightlife-tech-talk-with-peter-marks/106276236