Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

• jungle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, I saw it, but I was replying to the “please stop calling it AI” part. This is a computer science term, not a psychology term. Psychologists have no business discussing what computer scientists call these systems

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do i even answer here…

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    • jungle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, I see. We in the software industry are no longer allowed to use our own terms because outsiders Co-opted them.

      Noted.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The solution to the public misusing technical terms isn’t to change the technical terms, but to educate the public. All of the following fall under AI:

      • pathing algorithms of computer opponents, but probably not the decisions that computer opponents make (i.e. who to attack; that’s usually based on manually specified logic)
      • the speech to text your phone used before Gemeni or whatever it’s called now on Android (Gemeni is also AI, just a different type of AI)
      • home camera systems that can detect people vs animals, and sometimes classify those animals by species
      • DDOS protection systems and load balancers for websites probably use some type of AI

      AI is a broad field, and you probably interact with non-LLM variants every day, whether you notice or not. Here’s a Wikipedia article that goes through a lot of it. LLMs/GPT are merely one small subfield in the larger field of AI.

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      • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The problem with AI in a “popular context” is that it has been a forever moving target. Old mechanical adding machines were better at correctly summing columns of numbers than humans, at the time they were considered a limited sort of artificial intelligence. All along the spectrum it continues. 5 years ago, image classifiers that can sit and watch video feeds 24-7, accurately identifying things that happen in the feed with better than human accuracy (accounting for human lack of attention, coffee breaks, distracting phone calls, etc.) those were amazing feats of AI - at the time, and now they’re “just image classifiers” much as Alpha-Zero “just plays games.”

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