• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    6 months ago

    AI could do this. Conventional programming could do it faster and better, even if it was written by AI.

    It’s an important concept to grasp

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      6 months ago

      It’ll be kept within product marketing and, I dunno how, but it would absolutely be used to see what they can raise prices on

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      6 months ago

      It’s getting there. In the next few years as hardware gets better and models get more efficient we’ll be able to run these systems entirely locally.

      I’m already doing it, but I have some higher end hardware.

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          6 months ago

          Stable diffusion SXDL Turbo model running in Automatic1111 for image generation.

          Ollama with Ollama-webui for an LLM. I like the Solar:7b model. It’s lightweight, fast, and gives really good results.

          I have some beefy hardware that I run it on, but it’s not necessary to have.

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    The bad news is the AI they’ll pay for will instead estimate your net worth and the highest price you’re likely to pay. They’ll then dynamicly change the price of things like groceries to make sure the price they’re charging will maximize their profits on any given day. That’s the AI you’re going to get.

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    I’m sure there are companies who’d love to develop something like this. And collect that information about exactly what groceries you currently have and statistics of how you consume them, so they can sell it to advertisers. Not advertisers that sell these groceries, of course - for these the AI company could just make the AI buy them from suppliers that pay them.

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    We really need to stop calling things “AI” like it’s an algorithm. There’s image recognition, collective intelligence, neural networks, path finding, and pattern recognition, sure, and they’ve all been called AI, but functionally they have almost nothing to do with each other.

    For computer scientists this year has been a sonofabitch to communicate through.

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      6 months ago

      But “AI” is the umbrella term for all of them. What you said is the equivalent of saying:

      we really need to stop calling things “vehicles”. There’s cars, trucks, airplanes, submarines, and space shuttles and they’ve all been called vehicles, but functionally they have almost nothing to do with each other

      All of the things you’ve mentioned are correctly referred to as AI, and since most people do not understand the nuances of neural networks vs hard coded algorithms (and anything in-between), AI is an acceptable term for something that demonstrates results that comes about from a computer “thinking” and making shaved intelligent decisions.

      Btw, just about every image recognition system out there is a neural network itself or has a neural network in the processing chain.

      Edit: fixed an autocorrect typo

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        No. No AI is NOT the umbrella term for all of them.

        No computer scientist will ever genuinely call basic algorithmic tasks “AI”. Stop saying things you literally do not know.

        We are not talking about what what the word means to normies colloquially. We’re talking about what it actually means. The entire point it is a separate term from those other things.

        Engineers would REALLY appreciate it if marketing morons would stop misapplying terminology just to make something sound cooler… NONE of those things are “AI”. That’s the fucking point. Marketing gimmicks should not get to choose our terms. (as much as they still do)

        If I pull up to your house on a bicycle and tell you, “quickly, get in my vehicle so I can drive us to the store.” You SHOULD look at that person weirdly: They’re treating a bicycle like it’s a car capable of getting on the freeway with passengers.

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          What I’ve learned as a huge nerd is that people will take a term and use it as an umbrella term for shit and they’re always incorrect but there’s never any point in correcting the use because that’s the way the collective has decided words work and it’s how they will work.

          Now the collective has decided that AI is an umbrella term for executing “more complex tasks” which we cannot understand the technical workings of but need to get done.

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            Sometimes, but there are many cases where the nerds win. Like with technology. How many times do we hear old people misuse terms because they don’t care about the difference just for some young person to laugh and make fun of their lack of perspective?

            I’ve seen it quite a lot, and I have full confidance it will happen here so long as an actual generalized intelligence comes along to show everyone the HUGE difference every nerd talks about.

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              But it will be called something different so almost nobody will notice that they now should see the difference