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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Valid point, though I’m surprised that cyc was used for non-AI purposes since, in my very very limited knowledge of the project, I thought the whole thing was based around the ability to reason and infer from an encyclopedic data set.

  Regardless, I suppose the original topic of this discussion is heading towards a prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate:

  Should the term Artificial Intelligence have the more literal meaning it held when it first was discussed, like by Turing or in the sci-fi of Isaac Asimov?

  OR

  Should society’s use of the term in reference to advances in problem solving tech in general or specifically its most prevalent use in reference to any neural network or learning algorithm in general be the definition of Artificial Intelligence?

  Should we shift our definition of a term based on how it is used to match popular use regardless of its original intended meaning or should we try to keep the meaning of the phrase specific/direct/literal and fight the natural shift in language?

  Personally, I prefer the latter because I think keeping the meaning as close to literal as possible increases the clarity of the words and because the term AI is now thrown about so often these days as a buzzword for clicks or money, typically by people pushing lies about the capabilities or functionality of the systems they’re referring to as AI.

  The lumping together of models trained by scientists to solve novel problems and the models that are using the energy of a small country to plagiarize artwork also is not something I view fondly as I’ve seen people assume the two are one in the same despite the fact one has redeeming qualities and the other is mostly bullshit.

  However, it seems that many others are fine with or in support of a descriptivist definition where words have the meaning they are used for even if that meaning goes beyond their original intent or definitions.

  To each their own I suppose. These preferences are opinions so there really isn’t an objectively right or wrong answer for this debate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The term “artificial intelligence” is supposed to refer to a computer simulating the actions/behavior of a human.

  LLMs can mimic human communication and therefore fits the AI definition.

  Generative AI for images is a much looser fit but it still fulfills a purpose that was until recently something most or thought only humans could do, so some people think it counts as AI

  However some of the earliest AI’s in computer programs were just NPCs in video games, looong before deep learning became a widespread thing.

  Enemies in video games (typically referring to the algorithms used for their pathfinding) are AI whether they use neural networks or not.

  Deep learning neural networks are predictive mathematic models that can be tuned from data like in linear regression. This, in itself, is not AI.

  Transformers are a special structure that can be implemented in a neural network to attenuate certain inputs. (This is how ChatGPT can act like it has object permanence or any sort of memory when it doesn’t) Again, this kind of predictive model is not AI any more than using Simpson’s Rule to calculate a missing coordinate in a dataset would be AI.

  Neural networks can be used to mimic human actions, and when they do, that fits the definition. But the techniques and math behind the models is not AI.

  The only people who refer to non-AI things as AI are people who don’t know what they’re talking about, or people who are using it as a buzzword for financial gain (in the case of most corporate executives and tech-bros it is both)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, gen z, and I haven’t actually read any of the Harry Potter books myself.

  But you’re on the right track; I think it was reading The Hobbit that did me in lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I am talking about fibrous material, like individual strands of carbon in a composite, I naturally type “fibre” but when I talk about nutrition or the internet it’s “fiber”

  I also tend to spell armor armour and color colour despite being American.

  Oh and I write grey instead of gray.

  I also catch myself writing units like metre and litre instead of meter and liter sometimes.

  It really all depends on if there’s a spellchecker turned on that will tell me I’m spelling things wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lower two panels of loss meme told with mosquitoes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in a small Utah town. The only four adults I ever remember hearing admit they were wrong especially when it came to politics or science or religion were my father and three of my high school teachers.

  All the rest would literally tell me that the research papers and encyclopedias I tried to cite as evidence were made up by either satan or some government deep state conspiracy. Or they’d say we can “agree to disagree” about shit like animals feeling pain and the flaws in eugenics (I wish I was joking)

  Yes, they have always been this stupid. Learning requires accepting when you’re wrong and the vast majority of people I knew growing up saw that as weakness.

  I thought it would be different when I got out of that place, and while living in a larger city is better, it’s not better by all that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Already made up my mind and got a rotring 600. Plan to use it till the brass erodes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With every exhale, we're smelling the inside of our lungs.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why you can taste/smell saline when it’s injected. Trace amounts of dissolved things (which taste like plastic and metal) in the saline are able to pass through the alveoli in the lungs and evaporate into your breath.

  Oddly, I think it’s a similar thing with my ADHD meds because about an hour or two after taking them my breath smells/tastes weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New social experiment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nvme0n1p1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AND the Expansion Pak⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’know, ch-choose a movie or… Or we can watch some interdimensional cable if you want.

  We now return to “Nintendo 69.”

  Nintendo, oh, what are you doing to me? Oh, Nintendo, oh, Nin…

  Or we can watch whatever, y’know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was born after 2000 (though not too long after) and this is actually one of my core memories. I think about the sounds of the static and the sound of the CRT turning off.

  Also, we had a really old tv in our basement till at least 2008 that had no remote, just knobs and I remember messsing with the “hue” dial all the time trying to figure out how it worked.

  The only reason that tv worked so late is that we had a black box connected to the antenna which I later learned was converting the digital signal to analog for the TV.

  Also, you’ve just reminded me that I remember the switch from analog to digital. Specifically, I remember watching Elmo talking with some adult on TV about the change. Now I really want to find that video. I think the guy was wearing a suit had short dark hair and glasses. I also think the background was pinkish purple. I want to know how accurate my memories from so long ago are. (I’ll add the link to the video in an edit if I can find it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal is plastic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Geologically, ice is a mineral, aka a rock. If lava is just rock heated past its melting point, water is lava.