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Fuck AI. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 64 points 10 months ago* (16 children)

I'm going to be that guy and point out that LLM's are not really "AI", that's just the corporate buzzword but "AI" is a loosely defined thing.

I think we should all get better at calling them LLM's publicly to take some of the magic woo-woo away.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    "Big Data", "Neural Net", etc etc, they keep changing the buzzword for this crap for the past decade.

    AI just resonates with the public because everyone has seen Terminator movies. Your dipshit CEO of Buttplugs Inc has no clue what an LLM, or neural net is. But he knows what AI is and he delusionally believes it's going make Buttplug inc. more profitable in the future.

    It's effective marketing.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, for all the undeserved hype about AI that we and I'm sure plenty of C-suites know about, there is still the issue of fiduciary duty to their bosses (shareholders).

    If you're a tech CEO that knows it's all crap, but the market conditions are such that going all-in on AI is going to triple your share price for no good reason, you'll probably be in a "get that money or we'll find somebody who will" situation.

    But that's also why executives get so much of their compensation in the form of stock. There's no need for shareholders to get off their asses to demand short term gains they can cash in on when the decision makers are one of them and playing the game game.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    i saw my first hover board in back to the future, the pink one. now it’s that overpriced exploding segway.

    at least the name segway was almost creative

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    if hover boards were legit real you'd have so many injuries the company would be sued into insolvency.

    already starting to see this with ebikes... massive increases in head trauma numbers since they became popular. mostly from old people buying a $5000 e bike and then riding it w/o a helmet at 15-20mph.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    if hover boards were legit real you'd have so many injuries the company would be sued into insolvency.

    I'm so sad we're not seeing this with AI. The injuries we get, the insolvency not so much. Fuck.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Right, but in the same spirit, we're not just talking about LLMs. If we're being accurate, the common interface we're used to with ChatGPT or Gemini, they are a system of different models including LLMs and other models for images, or sound.

    If we're talking AI in movies and music, besides LLMs for writing, we're mainly concerned with diffusion models

    If we're talking AI for wearables... That's usually more on the sensor/classification side of ML, so it's not even generative.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    yes, I'll call them AI when they are sentient D:

    I was spoiled by Iain Banks's Culture <3

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Iain M. Banks, don't ya know!?!?

    I'm still saving a culture book or two to enjoy, but the entire setting has been amazing.

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