considerealization

@considerealization@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an expert in AI systems, but here is my current thinkging:

  Insofar as ‘GenAI’ is defined as

  AI systems that can generate new content, including text, images, audio, and video, in response to prompts or inputs

  I think this is genuinely bad tech. In my analysis, there are no good use cases for automating this kind of creative activity in the way that the current technology works. I do not mean that all machine assisted generation of content is bad, but just the current tech we are calling GenAI, which is of the nature of “stochastic parrots”.

  I do not think every application of ML is trash. E.g., AI systems like AlphaFold are clearly valuable and important, and in general the application of deep learning to solve particular problems in limited domains is valuable

  Also, if we first have a genuinely sapient AI, then it’s creation would be of a different kind, and I think it would not be inherently degenerative. But that is not the technology under discussion. Applications of symbolic AI to assist in exploring problem spaces, or ML to solve classification problems also seems genuinely useful.

  But, indeed, all the current tech that falls under GenAI is genuinely bad, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are not valuable use cases. “Devouring text” and generating images is not something that benefits from automation. Nor is summarization of text. These do not add value to human life and they don’t improve productivity. They are a complete red herring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  GenAI is a bad tool that does bad things in bad ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • nyccli.org
  • prattcenter.net/our_work/gaining_ground
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Building Community-Led, Affordable Broadband in New York City

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These kinds of prescriptive gimmicks are very exasperating, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Toronto company is deliberately spreading hyperpartisan lies on Facebook. It owns a page called "Canada Proud" and has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting voters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How legal is this kind of activity? Do we not have regulations against CPAC-like activity?