Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 day agoYou got downvoted because Lemmy users like knee jerk reactions and think that you can unmake a technology or idea. You can’t, Ai is here and it’s forever now. Best we can do is find ways to live with it and like you said, reward those who use it ethically. The Lemmy idea that Ai should be banned and not used is so unrealistic
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You seem to misunderstand the ire;
AI in its current state has existed for over a decade. Watson used ML algorithms to beat Jeopardy by answering natural language questions in 2011. But techbros have gotten ahold of it and decided that copyright rules don’t apply to them and now the cat is out of the bag?!? From the outside it looks like bootlicking for the same bullshit that told us we would be using blockchain to process mortgages in 10 years… 10 years ago. AI isn’t just here to stay it’s been here for 70 years.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ML technology has existed for a while, but it’s wild to claim that the technology pre-2020 is the same. A breakthrough happened.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.
chunes@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Agreed. The only thing that has really changed is how much hardware we can throw at it. ML has existed more or less since the 60s.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Breakthroughs are not a myth. They still happen even when the process is iterative. That page even explains it. The advent of the GAN (2014-2018), which got overtaken by transformers in around 2017 for which GPTs and Diffusion models later got developed on. More hardware is what allowed those technologies to work better and bigger but without those breakthroughs you still wouldnt have the AI boom of today.