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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (36 children)
[–] criscodisco@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

LLMs are shit, fuck LLMs. They fuel billionaires, destroy the environment, kill critical thinking, confidently tell you to off yourself, praise Hitler, advocate for glue as a pizza topping. This tech is a war on artists and free thought and needs to be destroyed. Stop normalizing, stop using it.

And AI is a pipe dream no one is close to fulfilling, won’t be realized by feeding LLMs all of the data in existence, and billionaires are destroying our economy in their pursuit of it.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are referring to AGI not AI.

The broad category of AI is most definitely real.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Could you define that category? Or give us an example of a programme that fits under it and one that doesn't?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AI contains LLMs and Machine learning and AGI.

My main point is that you shouldn't throw out computerised protein folding and cancer detection with your hatred of LLMs.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

OK, and my point is that people are using the term "AI" so loosely as to be indistinguishable from "algorithm".

We'll still have the statistical protein folding models after this bubble eventually pops, we're just not gonna call it "AI". It's a trendy marketing department word, and its usefulness as a description in Computer Science is rapidly diminishing.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

I would say it just got widespread use, I definitely heard of MS Word doing autofill as ‘AI’ at the time when deep learning was freshly invented thing. People tried to label a lot of things ‘AI’, with LLMs the label just stuck better

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

overheard, rumored, etc: advances in ai are then quickly popularized, to the point where they're no longer thought of as ai. then people look at the main ai field, and think "why haven't they done any ai work?"

[–] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Stuff like ML, Computer Vision, Alpha Fold?

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

example of some that fit under it: imagenet classifiers (they're people too!), uhmm
example of some that don't: chatgpt

[–] wizblizz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't work that way unfortunately. Ask a person on the street what AI is and theyll tell you whatever flavor slop generator they're familiar with. You're not going to see much pushback on ML around the Fediverse.

On the fediverse I think we can be more precise in our language.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So what is AI in your opinion because LLMs fall under that umbrella.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My opinion. AI is a way to improve a computer models accuracy over time based on new data.

I could even argue that ChatGPT etc. are not AI because the LLMs are not directly learning from the inputs they are receiving.

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

yes they are!! do you know what the "T" means?? trained (edit: [loudly incorrect buzzer])!! over time!! from data!!
if you really want to be pedantic, chatgpt is ai!! there's rlhf, yaknow??

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

r/confidentlyincorrect

The G means Generative

The P means Pre-trained.

The T means Transformer.

It is not learning directly from its users, although the planned state-full amazon infrastructure will likely change thos.

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

well you know what they (me i use they/them pronouns) say is that being confidently wrong is essential for intelligence

Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
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