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friend_of_satan ,

Some hammers use enough energy to power a small country in order to show you a cake recipe without an entire backstory and 50 ads.

Rhynoplaz ,

Then it WAS worth it.

givesomefucks ,

Welcome to capitalism.

AI is the new thing, so cramming it into a product increase funding and/or stock price.

Even if it hurts the product.

vzq ,

Even if it hurts the product

Because the product is not the product. The stock valuation is the product.

Dagwood222 ,

Nope. It’s more like that weird thing you brought at 3 am off of the Home Shopping Network because you were in a really bad place and thought it would make you feel better.

Now it’s taking up space and you don’t want to throw it out because that would mean you’re a failure…

kibiz0r ,

It’s more like Jefferson’s dumbwaiter, in that it was created by someone who verbally supported an egalitarian utopian vision of society, but the device itself is a scale model of an exploitative social system. At one station of the device, unpaid/low-paid labor operates out of view of the user, and then at the other station, the user enjoys an almost-magical appearance of an answer to their request.

No tool is “just a tool”, after all. In that way, AI

(That section of the video leans heavily on Do Artifacts Have Politics?, which is a pretty short and accessible essay. If you’re not convinced that artifacts do have politics, and you don’t want to watch the video, just read a few paragraphs of the essay.)

DmMacniel ,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

calling (mm)LLMs AI is just corpo bullshit. But hey, it’s fancy, right?

0laura ,
@0laura@lemmy.world avatar

you not liking it doesn’t make it any less ai. I don’t remember that many people complaining when we called the code controlling video game characters ai.

Carighan ,
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Or called our mobile phones “cell phones”, despite not being organic. Tsk.

DmMacniel ,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

Except cell phones or cellular phones refer to the structure a mobile network is built on: a mesh of cell towers.

Jomega ,

That’s because in that context it stands for Action Instruction, not Artificial Intelligence.

kescusay ,
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Software developer, here.

It’s not actually AI. A large language model is essentially autocomplete on steroids. Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neutral network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

I’m not trying to diss LLMs, by the way. Like I said, they can be very useful in some contexts. I use Copilot to assist with coding, for example. Don’t want to write a bunch of boilerplate code? Copilot is excellent for speeding that process up.

celliern ,

LLMs are part of AI, which is a fairly large research domain of math/info, including machine learning among other. God, even linear regression can be classified as AI : that term is reeeally large

kescusay ,
@kescusay@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, I guess the way people use the term “AI” these days, sure, but we’re really beating all specificity out of the term.

DmMacniel ,
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pretty sure that they were and still are called Bots though, atleast in the context of first person shooter.

lmaydev ,

They are neural networks which are some of the oldest AI tech we have.

You can hate them, but they are by definition AI.

DmMacniel ,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

uhm no, AI is relaying on neural networks (which are just weighted gates) but Neural Networks are not by definition AI.

lmaydev ,

I’m sorry but they absolutely are.

aaaa ,

Complaining that it’s called AI is like complaining that smartphones are called smart. There’s no stopping it, you just end up sounding like an old man yelling at the cloud. (Which isn’t really a cloud, but we still call it that)

DmMacniel ,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

Nah, smartphones being actually “smarter” than feature phones as in you can do way more than just basic stuff like calling, messaging people, run a simple calculation, having a calendar etc.

daniskarma , (edited )

I don’t see the “is not actual AI” argument.

Since the 80 AI has just been algorithms and proposals for neural networks.

It never has need to have a “soul” or “be sentient” to be Artificial Intelligence.

Even a simple Tic Tac Toc opponent algorithm has been called AI without much complaining about it.

Also AI didn’t got called AI by corporations. That naming for the technology dates from where it was being proposed as concepts in universities.

downpunxx ,

it's very difficult to use jello as a hammer

valkyre09 ,

Probably just as difficult as justifying the “AI” component of this light: amzn.eu/d/08yAcZpp

suzune ,

Basically what I said to people who asked me about my opinion on AI.

Exactly it was: “AI is a tool like a hammer. If you hit your finger, don’t complain about the tool, but because you simply used it wrong.”

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Except AI is a pipe wrench pretending to be a hammer.

MajorHavoc , (edited )

True.

And I get where you’re going, but pipe wrenches are still way too useful in too many situations. AI is a like a disc brake compressor hand tool, being sold as the solution to everything else.

When I mention how much I like it for compressing a disc brake, I feel like people look at me like I’m crazy for falling off the hype train.

Edit: And by people, I mean AI hype shill bots, probably.

ironhydroxide OP ,

Yes, but your disk brake compressor tool could also be a hammer.

hahattpro ,

I am really piss off when Reddit use AI to shadowbanned my account. They never tell the reason. They just hide my interaction to outerworld, assuming that i am dumb and never found out.

As a result, all subsequent accounts i try to create are shadowbanned after 5 minutes because my phone in blacklist.

hahattpro ,

Appeals everyday but never get responded. I am sure all of this is handling by AI.

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