Or computers decades before that.
Many of these advances are incredibly recent.
And also many of the things we use in our day to day are ai powered without people even realising.
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TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sounds like the internet in the 90s.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 8 months ago
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
AI powered? Like what?
Lmaydev@programming.dev 8 months ago
fusionchat.ai/…/10-everyday-ai-applications-you-d…
Some good examples here.
Most social media uses it. Video and music streaming services. SatNav. Translations. Banks. Hospitals. The list goes on.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Got it. Thanks.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Automated mail sorting has been using AI to read post codes from envelopes for deacades, only back then - pre hype - it was just called Neural Networks.
That tech is almost 3 decades old.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But was it using neural networks or was it using OCR algorithms?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The key fact here is that it’s not “AI” as conventionally thought of in all the scifi media we’ve consumed over our lifetimes, but AI in the form of a product that tech companies of the day are marketing. It’s really just a complicated algorithm based off an expansive dataset, rather than something that “thinks”. It can’t come up with new solutions, only re-use previous ones; it wouldn’t be able to take one solution for one thing and apply that to a different problem. It still needs people to steer it in the right direction, and to verify its results are even accurate. However AI is now probably better than people at identifying previous problems and remembering the solution.
So, while you could say that lots of things are “powered by AI”, you can just as easily say that we don’t have any real form of AI just yet.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh but those pattern recognition examples are about machine learning, right? Which I guess it’s a form of AI.
1bluepixel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It also reminds me of crypto. Lots of people made money from it, but the reason why the technology persists has more to do with the perceived potential of it rather than its actual usefulness today.
There are a lot of challenges with AI (or, more accurately, LLMs) that may or may not be inherent to the technology. And if issues cannot be solved, we may end up with a flawed technology that, we are told, is just about to finally mature enough for mainstream use. Just like crypto.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
No, this isn’t crypto. Crypto and NFTs were trying to solve for problems that already had solutions with worse solutions, and hidden in the messaging was that rich people wanted to get poor people to freely gamble away their money in an unregulated market.
AI has real, tangible benefits that are already being realized by people who aren’t part of the emotion-driven ragebait engine. Stock images are going to become extinct in several years. People can make at least a baseline image of what they want, no matter the artistic ability. Musicians are starting to use AI tools. ChatGPT makes it easy to generate low-effort, high-time-consuming letters and responses like item descriptions, or HR responses, or other common draft responses. Code AI engines allow programmers to present reviewable solutions in real-time, or at least something to generate and tweak. None of this is perfect, but it’s good enough for 80% of the work that can be modified over time.
Things like chess AI has existed for decades, and LLMs are just extensions of the existing generative AI technology. I dare you to tell Chess.com that “AI is a money pit that isn’t paying off”, because they would laugh their fucking asses off, as they are actively pouring even more money and resources into Torch.
The author here is a fucking idiot. And he didn’t even bother to change the HTML title from its original focus of just Github Copilot. Clickbait bullshit.
Revonult@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I totally agree. However, I do feel like the market around AI is inflated like NFTs and Crypto. AI isn’t a bust, there will be steady progress at universities, research labs, and companies. There is too much hype right now, slapping AI on random products and over promising the current state of technology.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
A tale as old as time…
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 8 months ago
I love how suddenly companies started advertising things as AI that would have been called a chatbot a year ago. I saw a news article headlinethe other day that said that judges were going to improve the time they took to render judgments significantly by using AI.
Reading the content of the article they went on to explain that they would use it to draft the documents. Its like they never heard of templates
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thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Let’s combine AI and crypto, and migrate it to the cloud. Imagine the PowerPoints middle managers will make about that!
iopq@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m still trying to transfer $100 from Kazakhstan to me here. By far the lowest fee option is actually crypto since the biggest difference is the currency conversion. If you have to convert anyway, might as well only pay 0.30% on both ends
demesisx@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Look into DJED on Cardano. It’s WAY cheaper than ETH (but perhaps not cheaper than some others). A friend of mine sent $10,000 to Thailand for less than a dollar in transaction fees. To the OP: Sounds like a use-case to me!
oroboros@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
If only I had some money to transfer somewhere :(
FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 months ago
Layer-2 rollups for Ethereum are also way cheaper than the base layer, this page lists the major ones.
demesisx@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Crypto found a problem to fix. The problem is: everything is run by that problem so it was astroturfed to death by parties that run the current financial system and the enemy of their enemy (who’s a friend), opportunistic scammers like SBF and Do Kwan.