“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”

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[–] [S] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Funny, you described machine learning that has been useful in many fields for years now before anyone even heard of "AI". "AI" is meaningless PR term that has hijacked what used to be called machine learning, machine vision and algorithms. Those are still useful applications, but they are being actively devalued by this capitalism induced craze.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    AI is one of those buzzwords that can make your company look more valuable. So everyone includes it, weather it's useful or not.

    And it's so easy: you use text somewhere in your application? Send it to a LLM together with a prompt and voila - you now have AI in your system. Bam. +200% market value.

    Of course I exaggerated a bit, but a lot of people see it like that.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Machine learning is a subsection of AI, and people in general have probably always been more familiar with the term AI than machine learning.

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