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Do techbros that complain on the Fediverse about people hating on AI realize it isn't just here that hates AI? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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Everyone pretty much hates it, its just here is one of the few places online where money and stupidity can't be waved around frantically to hide that.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I've studied NNs and GANs in formal education. I do see some promise, but like most people here it is wayyy overhyped for general use.

They are fantastic pattern matching tools that express the power of carefully curated structured or semi-structured datasets. They, like functional programming (which I find WAY more interesting than most of the common technologies called "AI") point to the philosophy that the work of a librarian is vital to intelligence in some mysteriously fundamental way, far more than any of the bruteforced fruits the AI industry is constantly announcing as proof of their climate destroying snakeoil.

[–] powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Dismissing current tech as pattern matching is silly. The models can clearly reason, just nowhere as well as humans can. Humans are just advanced pattern matchers, we're much less special than we sometimes like to think