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Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Thats why I have stopped calling it ai. Its a dumbass buzzword just like cloud, that tech bros like to use but cant explain (or blockchain).

Its llms, and image generators/OCR (which has been around for decades), Using complex markov chains and a fuck ton of graphics cards. NOT AI. NOT AI.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    It is AI, along with a bunch of optimization algorithms, statistical decision trees (probably used in adaptive AI in games), etc. AI is a field in computer science that includes a ton of things many wouldn't consider AI.

    Basically, if the solution doesn't come from direct commands but instead comes from some form of learning process, it's probably AI.

    It's not "general AI", but it is in the field of AI.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I would argue we need to go back to Machine Learning.

    The field is machine learning, generative machine learning etc.

    This rebrand to AI is doing nothing but confusing people and building investor hype

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Back? Machine Learning has always been a subfield of artificial intelligence since it all started in the 1950s or so. The end goal is to create general AI, and each field in AI is considered a piece of that puzzle, including LLMs.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also fair.

    I find the term machine learning more honest than artificial intelligence

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    It's more specific, sure, but there's nothing dishonest about using the same terminology that has been used for almost 100 years.

    The disconnect is that average people have a different understanding of the term than is used in computer science, probably because of sci-fi films and whatnot. When I hear "AI," I think of the CS term, because that's my background, but when my family hears "AI," they think of androids and whatnot like in Bicentennial Man.

    I don't know how to square that circle. Neither group here is wrong, but classifying something like ChatGPT as "AI," while correct, is misinterpreted by the public, who assume it's doing more than it is.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I've had to start calling it AI because most people don't know what LLMs are, and noone cares to go through the explanation, including myself.
    I'm afraid that, as these things go, AI has gained a new meaning by popular use, rather than the original meaning of the acronym.
    No point fighting it anymore.

    Maybe we just need to adjust and start saying GAI (generative ai). It has a nice ring to it too.

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