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• casmael@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also it’s not fucking ai is it. I actually find the blatant misuse of this term incredibly annoying to be honest.

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Arguably you are the one misusing the term. Even painfully mundane tasks like the A* pathfinding algorithm fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence. It’s a big, big (like, stupidly big) field.

    You are right that it’s not AGI, but very few people (outside of marketing) claim that it is.

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m going to argue quite strongly that my general, all purpose understanding of the words ‘artificial’ and ‘intelligence’ constitute the ‘correct’ definition for the term, and I don’t really care how ‘ai’ is defined ‘in industry’. It’s not intelligent, therefore it’s not artificial intelligence. You can redefine ‘intelligent’ in this context to mean whatever you like, but unless the general definition of the word changes then it doesn’t mean jack about shit.

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      • 5gruel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So what is intelligence in your general, all-purpose understanding?

        Are newborns intelligent? How about dogs? Ants?

        You may argue that current AI is still behind an average human adult and therefore not intelligent, but academia is a bit more nuanced.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is. The AI Effect just means the goalposts for what people think of as “proper” AI are constantly moving.

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This might be the case ‘in the industry’, but I would argue quite strongly that it represents a gross misuse of the word ‘intelligence’. Like a fun new definition of the word, that doesn’t mean anything close to what it usually means.

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      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        AI was a computer science term before any industry adopted it.

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  • anonymous111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, no one seems to raise this anymore. AI to me has always been something akin to computer sentience.

    Things like ‘self healing’ systems are being badeged as AI when they’re little more than an application load balancer.

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• celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nobody has been able to properly explain to me any actual use-case for blockchain. The most common example people try to use is smart contracts. You know, because contract signing before was this cumbersome process that is only improved if a global network of computers all agree that the contract was signed.

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  • abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Drugs(silk road), scams&malware(pay 5 Bitcoin to unlock PC), money laundering&pump dump (unregulated market), and Nvidia hype (should have bought amd at 5$)

    “we ran out of useful things to do with computing at the consumer level and now we are inventing problems” - “just bill’em” gates, 1984.

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