A very good take on these "AI" hype-explosions that have happened lately pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…
It is what I was talking since 2016 when I released the book Human Machine tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d… - these "AI" are neither Artificial or Intelligent. Are statistical pieces of software, and with enough repetition and filters applied to it, can result in cool party-tricks such as creating interesting images and videos, or pieces of text.
That's all it is.
Sure, could be useful if used by non-profits and for a social cause, but else they are just hyped and mostly useless. It is, as Cory puts it in his article, yet another "blockchain-revolution" that never happened.
It is easy to get tricked in today's world, and that's many times because of "trade reasons". Meaning, the companies behind these tools hype the fuck out of them to raise "capital" and sell them, and so they fool the rest. Intelligence, Learning, Neural Networks, Hallucinating....fuck off! These are pieces of software based on a lot of data and statistical outputs.
I remember how IBM Watson was about to "change the world" and replace doctors, lawyers, programmers, you name it! It even wont a Jeopardy game several years ago. Where is it now? Again, HYPE.
Be aware of these!
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in reply to Tio • • •I was actually very excited about AIs at first, but after trying it out myself I realized that its not exactly what people make it out to be. And I couldn't put my finger on it at first, but then I found this reddit post that explained it quite well - reddit.com/r/Futurology/commen…
Comparing AI to parrot is a very good analogy, because that's what an AI does, it tries to mimic human behaviors like chatting, drawing, etc without actually having a proper "understanding" of what its doing.
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r/Futurology - Stop treating ChatGPT like it knows anything.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •For example I asked an AI chatbot to recommend me some songs and it did, then I asked it to give me youtube links to those songs. And everything looked fine, until I actually clicked on those links. Clicking on those youtube links either sent me to a different youtube video or in most cases YouTube said the video was unavailable. So that's when I got it that the AI was trying to "mimic" the YouTube links, and TBF it does a pretty good job at that, but that's all there is to it.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •So does this mean AI is totally useless? not really, but I'd definitely warn people against using AIs for learning "new things" that you don't already know, 'cause it can mislead you by giving wrong info. Like the post I linked above says, an AI is like a parrot, and I don't think most people would wanna learn from a parrot regardless of how good it is at mimicking an intelligent-looking conversion. AI can be used to assist you with things you already know how to do.
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