Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated

• Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The decision tree my company uses to deny customer claims is not AI despite the business constantly referring to it as such.

  There’s definitely a ton of “AI” in the business world that is not better than an If/Else statement.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s basically what video game AI is, and we’re happy enough to call it that

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    • archon@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well… it’s a video game. We also call them “CPU” which is also entirely inaccurate.

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  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    for many years AI referred to that type of technology. It is not infact AGI but AI historically in the technical field refers more towards decision trees, and classification/ linear regression models.

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s called an expert system, and has been commonly called a form of AI for decades.

    That is indeed what most of it is, my company was doing “sentiment analysis” and it was literally just checking it against a good and bad word list

    When someone corporate says “AI” you should hear “extremely rudimentary machine learning” until given more details

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• bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s useful at sucking down all the compute we complained crypto used

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s funny how that little tidbit just went quietly into the bin not to talked about again.

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  • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The main difference is that crypto was/is burning huge amounts of energy to run a distributed ponzi scheme. LLMs are at least using energy to create a useful tool (even if there is discussion over how useful they are).

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    • bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I argue AI is much easier to pull a profit from than a currency exchange also 🙂

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You really should listen rather than talk. This is not AI, it’s just a word prediction model.

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  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, what you’re describing is also AI.

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then we may as well call the field of statistics AI now, but sure, it’s a crazy world. :)

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• ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are significant differences between statistical models and AI.

  I work for an analytics department at a fortune 100 company. We have a very clear delineation between what constitutes a model and what constitutes an AI.

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  • wischi@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s true. Statistical models are very carefully engineered and tested and current machine learning models are created by throwing a lot of training data at the software and hope for the best that the things that the model learns are not complete bullshit.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, an AI is a model you can’t explain.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Optimizing compilers came directly out of AI research. The entirety of modern computing is built on it.

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