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Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really don’t think there is any useful generative or general AI.

  So a lot of the issue is how marketing got their slimy tentacles around the word, but most “useful” AI is domain specific, symbolic ML (machine learning). Even LLMs have their uses in very specific domains, but again, general usage is very questionable.

  People are already somewhat familiar with ML, but that’s been kind of covered by the catch all term “algorithm”. What most people understand as “the” algorithm (YouTube, Twitter, whatever) isn’t a single algorithm, but a complex set of algorithms often at least partly compromised of some sort of ML.

  All that to say, the general public really doesn’t need to know this stuff and the serious engineers couldn’t care less of our opinion of it. Fuck AI.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly. I don’t have problem with AI. I have problem with slop machines pretending to be AI.

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  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is ai used for enemys and video games and some for protein folding
    Thats the ones i mean with useful

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    • audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, sorry, that wasn’t directed so much at you as it was using your post as a starting point.

      I remember the Folding at Home program, that was more about distributed computing than AI. Game AI has been well-discussed for decades now, but in 99.9% of other AI cases it’s usually in reference to the current trend (or trying to ride that wave) and like 0.1% niche nerd talk you caught a stray from.

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      • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sorry that was rude because of my misunderstanding
        And its nice that you gave complementary info

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