{"title": "Did the word \"AI\" just lost all meaning?", "timestamp": 1774439662.3606308, "description": "AI ( Artificial Intelligence ) just a few decades ago meant a robot or a computer that has human-like thinking. Think of HAL 9000, or the robots in *I Robot*. All of those things were \"AI\".\r\n\r\nToday any remotely automatic algorithm on the planet is labeled with this nonsensical term. ", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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Yes, they are quite clever, and quite complex. But in the end of the day, they are mathematical statistics predictors. There were words for this sort of things. We used to call it \"Statistics\" or \"Analytics\". But now it's called \"AI\".\r\n\r\nAnd we can thank [Claude Shannon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon) for helping us get closer to that world.", "username": "Troler", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1774468111.1887515}, {"text": "> \"AI\" seems to still be closely related to anything machine learning. LLMs are not algorithms carefully assembled by linguists to \"understand\" the promps. And the answers the LLMs are giving are not carefully put together information curated by the experts or at least people that know a thing or two about the topics in question. That would be Wikipedia, not LLMs.\r\n\r\nWell you see... LLMs do get their data from Wikipedia. ", "username": "Troler", "id": 4, "timestamp": 1774468281.078302}, {"text": "> Think about it. When you ask an LLM to perform a \"thinking\" for you, to \"solve\" something for you, you are not solving it yourself. You are cheating. But the ironic thing is, the LLM itself is cheating too, because the engineers who designed it didn't want to solve the problem themselves. They wanted a computer to statistically arrive at an algorithm by itself.\r\n\r\n\r\nThat's good, assuming the computer has infinite computing power and the data it was given is 100% pure and clean, and that the developers have no incentives for censorship. Winnie the Pooh. \r\n", "username": "Troler", "id": 5, "timestamp": 1774468499.6690526}, {"text": "> There is not just no intelligence in the LLM. But no intelligence in the creation of the LLM in the first place. If there is any intelligence in it, it is just pretend intelligence, Artificial Intelligence.\r\n\r\nHave you use the Emacs psychologist AI. It is very convincing.", "username": "Troler", "id": 6, "timestamp": 1774468550.4144237}, {"text": "c:6\r\n\r\n@Troler NO!", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 7, "timestamp": 1774468627.43569}, {"text": "> I get it now. \"AI\" does not refer to the algorithm used. \"AI\" ( Artificial Intelligence ) is the term that describes its users.\r\n\r\nNow, I know you are salty about the abuse of AI. But let's not call each other names. AI can be used to clean up Blender renders. It can be used to transcribe texts. It can be used to translate texts. It can be used to label images, to make it easier to search for pictures. The fact people abuse a tool, doesn't mean the tool is broke, rather it is the people. So yes, you are right, the ab**users** of AI have Artificial Intelligence. ", "username": "Troler", "id": 8, "timestamp": 1774468681.0356278}, {"text": "c:8\r\n\r\n@Troler \r\n\r\n> Today any remotely automatic algorithm on the planet is labeled with this nonsensical term.", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 9, "timestamp": 1774468686.4540749}, {"id": 10, "activitypub": "https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115751003193531203/statuses/116300347221933451", "username": "@seaborgium1234@mastodon.social", "text": "c:2\n\n[@Troler](https://blenderdumbass.org/account/Troler) Have you?"}, {"text": "c:10\r\n\r\n@seaborgium1234@mastodon.social Yes, now I am stoned. That Philosopher's stone is good stuff.", "username": "Troler", "id": 11, "timestamp": 1774725835.8570895}]}, "collections": [], "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["ai", "llm", "machinelearning", "analytics", "algorithm", "programming", "intelligence", "philosophy"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/did_the_word__ai__just_lost_all_meaning_", "likes": ["blenderdumbass", "https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass", "https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116270182801145080"], "boosts": ["https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass"]}