Please let’s not defame Djikstra and other Algorithms like this. Just call them “corporate crap”, like what they are.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Can we just go back to calling this shit Algorithms and stop pretending its actually Artificial Intelligence?
veniasilente@lemm.ee 10 months ago
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Maybe machine learning models technically fit the definition of “algorithm” but it suits them very poorly. An algorithm is traditionally a set of instructions written by someone, with connotations of being high level, fully understood conceptually, akin to a mathematical formula.
A machine learning model is a soup of numbers that maybe does something approximately like what the people training it wanted it to do, using arbitrary logic nobody can expect to follow. “Algorithm” is not a great word to describe that.
WackyTabbacy42069@reddthat.com 10 months ago
It actually is artificial intelligence. What are you even arguing against man?
Machine learning is a subset of AI and neural networks are a subset of machine learning. Saying an LLM (based on neutral networks for prediction) isn’t AI because you don’t like it is like saying rock and roll isn’t music
over_clox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If AI was ‘intelligent’, it wouldn’t have written me a set of instructions when I asked it how to inflate a foldable phone. Seriously, check my first post on Lemmy…
lemmy.world/post/1963767
An intelligent system would have stopped to say something like “I’m sorry, that doesn’t make any sense, but here are some related topics to help you”
WackyTabbacy42069@reddthat.com 10 months ago
AI doesn’t necessitate a machine even being capable of stringing the complex English language into a series of steps towards something pointless and unattainable. That in itself is remarkable, however naive it may be in believing you that a foldable phone can be inflated. You may be confusing AI for AGI, which is when the intelligence and reasoning level is at or slightly greater than humans.
The only real requirement for AI is that a machine take actions in an intelligent manner. Web search engines, dynamic traffic lights, and Chess bots all qualify as AI, despite none of them being able to tell you rubbish in proper English
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There’s the rub: defining “intelligent”.
If you’re arguing that traffic lights should be called AI, I’m on the same page. We believe the same things: that ChatGPT isn’t any more “intelligent” than a traffic light. But you want to call them both intelligent and I want to call neither so.
jordanlund@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Inflating a phone is super easy though!
Overheat the battery. ;)
media.licdn.com/dms/image/…/1520251105768
jarfil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If “making sense” was a requirement of intelligence… there would be no modern art museums.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I am arguing against this marketing campaign, that’s what. Who decides what “AI” is and how did we come to decide what fits that title? The concept of AI has been around a long time and it was originally treated as a sci-fi fantasy of sentient androids. Calling it “AI” is just a way to make it sound high tech futuristic dreams-come-true. A predictive text algorithm is hardly “intelligence”. It’s only being called that to make it sound profitable.