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atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 23 hours agoYou 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 20 hours 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 17 hours ago
Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.
chunes@lemmy.world 10 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 9 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.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I posted it because you claimed non of that happened before 2020.