Post AijJMOiHsrkVp3KP6u by swashberry@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #Aij69AxKQK3xzBjDrE by selea@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-08T18:46:03Z
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The hype around AI gives me a bad taste. I miss the good when it was called ML (Machine Learning)There is certainly good usecases for it, but I am not comfortable with the AI-washing that is going on.No, I dont need an "AI powered device" (meaning API-calls to openai). Sad that "AI" has been reduced to glorified search engines and chatbots, throwing decades of research and work away that has been made on neural networks.
(DIR) Post #Aij6X2QBo2weSzbegC by pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se
2024-06-08T18:50:22Z
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@selea its kinda funny that ML itself was a term liberally applied to differentiate yourself from that out-of-fashion 'AI' gobbledygook even though it was the exact same people doing exactly the same things.
(DIR) Post #Aij6xOQ0dzhADc5aFs by selea@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-08T18:55:08Z
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@pettter The difference is that people using the term Machine Learning, does not claim that it is any sort of intelligence.
(DIR) Post #Aij8AogKPR97OJgdsm by pegdhcp@mastodon.online
2024-06-08T19:08:43Z
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@selea I assume behind the hype is the serious drive to collect as much as training data as possible. If they tell people "we will use your data to optimise our ML cost functions" that wouldn't be very attractive, commercially. Frankly in any case, given the current CPU and energy heavy status of the technology, ML based solutions would not be "saviours" they are advertised to be.
(DIR) Post #Aij8nrNwI9x74Mhdq4 by bws@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-08T19:15:50Z
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@selea the beat thing about the current ai hype is that people stopped talking about blockchains. 🥸
(DIR) Post #AijBhMaqA7vfh9KaXY by sk313t0n@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-08T19:48:16Z
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@selea i feel you. and calling chatgpt an AI is degrading the term artificial intelligence. that thing is powerful, sure, but it's not intellingent. it's just a language model. same goes for the image generating junk too. oh, and the really nice ethical decisions from the companies behind them. just ripping off other people's work without consent and with basically no way of checking afterwards
(DIR) Post #AijI9YRsHFc6ITxmKm by selea@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-08T21:00:26Z
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@sk313t0n 💯
(DIR) Post #AijJMOiHsrkVp3KP6u by swashberry@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-08T21:14:08Z
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@seleaReferring to machine learning algorithms by the generic term "AI" has caused a lot of misapprehensions about what it is and what it's capable of.I saw a lot of not-stupid people early on during the hype train ride talking about how we're only a short amount of time away from the digital Aristotle of which we've always dreamed, and a lot of people even today still treat "AI-generated" solutions like they're superior to what a human can do.While it is accurate to say that machine learning can learn how to do things that humans fail at, this doesn't imply an underlying intelligence.I'm still not satisfied that we've yet solved the problem of machine learning algorithms having no concept of the truth value of generated statements, and that's a major hurdle to get over before I can treat ML as reliable in good conscience. So far all it seems to be good at is giving artists and people in creative fields existential dread about being rendered obsolete or having their intellectual property taken away.