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  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    AI doesn’t exist. This is like asking an atheist why they hate god.

    If you’re talking about LLMs and the like, they’re unpopular on Lemmy because tech people are over represented here and tech people understand how these technologies work and why all the hype isn’t just false, but malicious.

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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      17 hours ago

      You mean a bunch of advertising and media companies that control and gatekeep the news are hyping something that’s making them trillions of dollars? That seems… so unbelievable!

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      17 hours ago

      Today my boss asked me why Gemini suggested made up columns when he was trying to query our database. I just told him it also makes up fake tables.

      This shit is half baked and really never should have been foisted on the public.

      • msage@programming.dev
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        7 hours ago

        This shit has cost the investors untold money, and it was promised to revolutionize the world, so by golly it will, by force if it must.

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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        12 hours ago

        Oh, that’s me. Microsoft gave me backdoor access to your computer so I can play against you.

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        8 hours ago

        I know you’re meming, but in Civilization (as in most games), you’re playing against predefined scripts and algorithmic rules that the computer opponent has, as well as having cheaper costs for resources than the user at higher difficulty levels - because it cannot compete with a skilled human player at that level (it literally cheats).

        No LLM, no neural network, no deep learning… not ‘AI’ in the modern sense that’s being discussed here.

        • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
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          7 hours ago

          It’s not predefined though. The rules of the game are but not its actions. It observes the environment and changes its behavior based on that. That’s narrow intelligence and thus meeting the criteria of AI.

          A chess player isn’t not-intelligent either just because it’s bound by the rules of the game.

          • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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            4 hours ago

            It is absolutely predefined - if you make the same moves it will give you the same results, every time. Same as playing ChessMaster 2000 from 1986.

            It may narrowly fit into the broad definition of ‘AI’ (like, since the 70s) but that’s not what’s being discussed in this thread.

            Believe what you like though.

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              1 hour ago

              No, it’s not predefined - chess has about 10^120 possible games. That’s astronomically large number which is way too vast to pre-store or hardcode. It’s intelligence through computation, not a script.

              Believe what you like though.

    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
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      7 hours ago

      AI has existed for decades. The chessbot on Atari is an AI.

      What doesn’t exist is AGI but that’s not synonymous with AI. Most people just don’t know the right terms here and bunch it all together as if it was all one thing.

      If one is expecting a large language model designed to generate natural sounding language to be generally intelligent like an sci-fi AI assistant then no wonder they find it lacking. They’re expecting autonomous driving from a cruise control.