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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tolkien predicted the failure of marketed AI? I'm not surprised, it's a product of human industry and progress, something he was critical about.

I say marketed AI as it's not really AGI, even though it's sold that way. The good/bad news is that actual progress in AGI will have worse results, and current AI is just demonstrating the issues that will crop up without the faster pace and worse destruction AGI could possibly bring. (See the AI alignment problem for details)

But hey... we learn lessons from history, right?

Right??

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I say marketed AI as it’s not really AGI

"it" - being machine learning - is not even AI. Only dumbfucks believe that garbage marketing BS.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It objectively is, same as OCR and fuzzy logic.

It's just that when people hear "artificial intelligence", they think of Lt. Cmdr. Data and not the actual field of research that machine learning is a legitimate part of.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

The problem is that the term being used is alike to saying "bread" when referring to pancakes. If this branch of IT was run by sane people, I might not even take such issue with the label. But there's nothing wrong with labeling it machine learning, and all the credible applications do just that, be it for medical analysis or for other targeted applications. The only morons insisting to call machine learning "AI" are the LLM fuckers. And the only thing that is "AI" about LLMs are the input and output filters, which have are coded with actual, deterministic rules (or so I suspect). LLM companies are snake oil vendors, and the users are all helping them ruin the planet, politically and environmentally. And the users need to understand that, or they'll contribute a big part to running us right into the ground. So when someone says "AI", and means machine learning systems, they need to understand there is absolutely nothing "intelligent" about them. Because people are gullible and if the output sounds impressive enough, they - and you can observe that every minute in the real world - they actually believe the software has an understanding of what it is saying. It doesn't. You know that, I know that, but most of the dumb users using LLMs do not. And they need to be reminded every minute until they stop fucking around with it.