A note from one of my favourite authors at the moment.
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@ScriptFanix @jmax @TimWardCam @resuna @yugthebug @thirstybear AI is a meaningless term. For a start, nobody really believes that machines, algorithms or tools are really sentient beings (as far as I can see, the only ones who claim that are the notorious liars who actually make the tools and a few people who are of sub-par intelligence who have been duped by their marketing), or in any meaningful sense, 'intelligent'. So, we shouldn't use the term at all. Call them slopbots, slop distributors.
@UkeleleEric @ScriptFanix @TimWardCam @resuna @yugthebug @thirstybear It used to be useful as a catch-all term for a loose collection of academic research on "things it's hard to program a computer to do". No more.
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A note from one of my favourite authors at the moment.
@thirstybear hey you know John is on Mastodon, scalzi at Mastodon.Social
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@thirstybear hey you know John is on Mastodon, scalzi at Mastodon.Social
@julianlawson I didn’t! Thanks.
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@DelilahTech @dneary Another vote for Kaiju Preservation Society here. I’m new to the author so playing catchup, but everyone mentions the Old Man’s War series.
@thirstybear
It's a good series, I just find his standalones more entertaining
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@ScriptFanix @jmax @TimWardCam @yugthebug @thirstybear
Don't refer to any of them as AI, just because they're lying doesn't mean you have to lie too.
@resuna @ScriptFanix @jmax @TimWardCam @yugthebug @thirstybear
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@resuna @ScriptFanix @jmax @TimWardCam @yugthebug @thirstybear
Plausible Whatever Generators@LeBonk @ScriptFanix @jmax @TimWardCam @yugthebug @thirstybear
I just call them LLMs. AI is a field of research. LLMs are a spin-off, but they're not AI in the science fiction sense anymore than a Fisher Space Pen is a rocket just because it's a spin-off of the space industry.
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@LeBonk @ScriptFanix @jmax @TimWardCam @yugthebug @thirstybear
I just call them LLMs. AI is a field of research. LLMs are a spin-off, but they're not AI in the science fiction sense anymore than a Fisher Space Pen is a rocket just because it's a spin-off of the space industry.
@resuna @ScriptFanix @jmax @TimWardCam @yugthebug @thirstybear
yeah but this also includes image generators and things that maybe can't be accurately described as dealing with "language" in its output
Kate Crawford's term "large-scale computing" is also good as a reminder that these things are really just the same sort of thing we've had for a while, but bigger, more resource-intensive, and more exploitative -
@yugthebug @thirstybear No. There are no commercial services that use anything except LLMs. The techbros really belive it's a universal solution.
In the modern world, AI == LLM.@jmax @yugthebug @thirstybear Weather Prediction? Valve Anti Cheat (since at least 2019)?
They're out there, they're just not screaming it into the void.
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@jmax @yugthebug @thirstybear Weather Prediction? Valve Anti Cheat (since at least 2019)?
They're out there, they're just not screaming it into the void.
@krutonium @yugthebug @thirstybear "Not all AI!"
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A note from one of my favourite authors at the moment.
@thirstybear I take exception to comparing AI companies to an arson ring burning down you house.
It's more like a criminal ring that breaks into your house, steals all your stuff, then burns your house down... Later, you find all your stuff being sold on Ebay.
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@krutonium @yugthebug @thirstybear "Not all AI!"
@jmax @yugthebug @thirstybear I was only refuting the claim about no commercial services using non LLM AI.
Everything else that was said is true
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@thirstybear - and this assunes there is, in fact, legitimate uses for AI, which very muchremains to be proven...
@jwcph @thirstybear I think that depends on if it means “machine learning as a field” or “specifically LLMs and diffusion models”
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A note from one of my favourite authors at the moment.
@thirstybear That is a pretty apt comparison. "AI" is a broad term, so it feels like 90% of the time saying "AI" has it's uses is being disingenuous.
Machine Learning which no one AFAIK complained about DOES have it's uses for some things. GenAI is what people are complaining about. That's why it's always best not to use "AI" unless you are trying to talk in general about all types of AI.
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A note from one of my favourite authors at the moment.
@thirstybear Thank you!
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@ScriptFanix @jmax @resuna @yugthebug @thirstybear The one that pisses me off is "organic", but I accept that that one's lost.
@TimWardCam @ScriptFanix @jmax @resuna @yugthebug @thirstybear Well actually... *scnr* in computer games I shot AI – for the past two to three decades. It's fun. And in recent games, e.g. Arc Raiders, AI behavior is actually machine learnt. Even funnier to outsmart that...
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@ScriptFanix @jmax @resuna @yugthebug @thirstybear The one that pisses me off is "organic", but I accept that that one's lost.
@TimWardCam @ScriptFanix @jmax @yugthebug @thirstybear
Organic, chemical free. I guess it's some kind of crystallized energy.
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@yugthebug @thirstybear No. There are no commercial services that use anything except LLMs. The techbros really belive it's a universal solution.
In the modern world, AI == LLM.LLM ≠ AI
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@thirstybear One problem with this analogy is that the people talking about the arson ring often suggest banning fire rather than stopping arsonists from misusing it and the only way to get them to focus on the arsonists starts with reminding them that fire can be useful.
@MartyFouts or, and hear me out here, you could put your whataboutism where the sun does not shine. no-one loves proselytisers.
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@LevZadov @yugthebug @thirstybear I'm sorry, but you've lost that fight. In general usage, LLM is exactly what AI means.
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@resuna @yugthebug @jmax @thirstybear You probably use an ML system every time you spend money - every transaction is fraud scored at some point, some multiple times.
@TimWardCam Lots of comments arguing that this is not what people are complaining about, so I felt I should point out whatever system my cash back for groceries card is using for fraud detection is an absolute sack of shit, excelling at both Type 1 *and* Type 2 errors.
