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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s also the other way around. What was called AI in the past is now called bots. Simple algorithms that approximate the appearance of intelligence like even the earliest chess engines, for instance, were also called AI.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And all those uses are correct, because AI is a broad field. We should just use the more specific terms these days though: machine learning, LLM, Bayesian networks, etc.

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- entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Agreed. But most people have neither the time nor capacity to track all of these specifics, so popular discussions of AI-related technologies inevitably break down into a mud pit of people talking past each other about various different topics.
  
  Which, if you think about it, is true of most public discussions about any complex topic. It almost invariably revolves into a miscommunication or a discussion about semantics.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    People have the capacity to track genres and whatnot, what’s so different about this?
    
    I think people could understand if explained probably, but unfortunately journalists rarely dive deeply enough to do that. It really doesn’t need to get too involved:
    
    machine learning - tell an algorithm what it’s allowed to change and what a “good” output is and it’ll handle the rest to find the best solution
    
    Bayesian networks - probability of an event given a previous event; this is the underpinnings of LLMs
    
    LLM - similar to Bayesian networks, but with a lot more data
    
    And so on. If people can associate a technology with common applications, it’ll work a lot more like genres and people will start to intuit limitations of various technologies.
    
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    entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    What’s different is that most people will see it as “tech stuff” and mentally file it in a drawer with spare extension cords and adapters. They don’t care to deeply study or catalog things.
    
    People writ-large don’t care about proper genre labels either, they just kinda pick a vibe and guess off of it. Look at all the -core suffixed aesthetic names that cropped up in the last decade.
    
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
True! I was refering to the stricltly scientific definition but of course there’s always been a populer/broader one.

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