• primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus
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    13 days ago

    Okay, but, devils advocate:

    What if I’m a billionaire trying to crush the working class and accelerate climate change and political division so the class war doesn’t pop off before i can get to my climate bunker?

    Or a billionaire fascist who wants to sloppify everyone’s brains and increase alienation while annihilating interiority so people will become docile and the class war won’t pop off and we get the 1984 timeline?

    Or a billionaire asshole who wanted to murder a concept and settled on ‘truth’?

    Or a really big ‘infinite jest’ fan?

    So “ai” has a lot of use cases. Maybe dont be such a reflexive reactionary fucking Luddite piece of shit about it.

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      13 days ago

      Every decade has at least one of these buzzwords (multimedia, internet/ online, social media, mobile app, blockchain, cryptocoins, micropayment, delivery, ai,…)… They can be used to attract dumb investor’s money but they have their useful sides too.

      Ok. They are just buzzwords which outline a set of tools. They are worthless without a realizable concept with a benefit for the end-user. And the use of the right tool for the job. So, I’m not sure about useful cryptocoins and blockchain use cases (I wouldn’t count financial speculation as particularly useful).

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    12 days ago

    Can someone explain this joke in programmer terms?

    I just wrote an AI that is trained to classify image patterns and automatically creates bitmasks based on the pattern distributions. We tried k-means clustering and got garbage. How would I have done that without AI?

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        13 days ago

        Yeah, they’re complaining about a technicality. Using the word “AI” to refer to LLMs or to generative AI is just common parlance. That definition changes every few years. Five years ago, neural networks were referred to as “AI” and a few decades ago, the AIs stealing our jobs were calculators. This is known as the AI effect.

        Among experts, “AI” describes a whole research field with a myriad of applications, of which image recognition is definitely one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence