• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    not-quite-true

    Hell, not at all true. Nothing we currently have is intelligent, they are all complex statistical models that are described using misleading terms in the interest in getting the public to believe they are more capable than they are. Reasoning, learning, & hallucinations are all hyped up to make them sound intentional instead of statistical.

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        2 days ago

        Artificial requires intelligence to be true to have any meaning. Yeah, take that!

        (Also you were right to point that out.)

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      Intelligence doesn’t mean sentience. Insects can perform intelligent behavior. There’s nothing wrong with the term AI. It’s people confusing the word to mean Data from Star Trek.

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        It’s people confusing the word to mean Data from Star Trek.

        People like those promoting AI as replacements for workers?

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          A computer used to be the title of a job a person performed. Electronic computers displaced millions of human computers out of their job. LLM’s are doing a similar thing. It doesn’t need to be sentient to provide a small efficiency boost that results in fewer employees overall.

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            Human calculators were doing repetitive math, some at a high level, but the majority were literally doing a large amount of basic math. The ones who were doing the high level stuff didn’t lose their jobs, they benefitted from the automation, like with manufacturing automation and computer algorithms that have structured and repetitive outputs.

            AI is being shoved into positions where some level of flexibility in clarifying context and decision making is necessary. It is currently being used to impersonate therapists, trample creative jobs by scraping copywrited works, and forcing itself into everything it can so it can scrape more and more data. It isn’t comparable at all.