Are you using AI - and how?

[number9]

I came here to say the same. Everything is getting an AI sticker slapped on it these days. It’s extremely stupid.

As someone who works in tech: yeah, it's pretty frustrating. It's like the blockchain stuff all over again...

 

[sevenhelmet]

As someone who works in tech: yeah, it's pretty frustrating. It's like the blockchain stuff all over again...

Next they’ll be calling it money and telling us we all need to buy some.

Agree with stupid.

 

[IKE]

I came here to say the same. Everything is getting an AI sticker slapped on it these days. It’s extremely stupid.

To be fair, the industry and academia have chosen the term "artificial intelligence" to indicate the entire field, from rudimentary statistical methods and image recognition all the way to the digi-brain holy grail. Pedantically, machine learning (ML) is a subset of AI.

IMHO, the standards makers missed the mark here, causing a lot of layperson confusion and creating opportunities for bad journalism (as if we didn't have enough already).

 

[Brett327]

To be fair, the industry and academia have chosen the term "artificial intelligence" to indicate the entire field, from rudimentary statistical methods and image recognition all the way to the digi-brain holy grail. Pedantically, machine learning (ML) is a subset of AI.

IMHO, the standards makers missed the mark here, causing a lot of layperson confusion and creating opportunities for bad journalism (as if we didn't have enough already).

To be fair, industry has exploited AI as a branding tool in order to separate fools from their money.

 

[Hair Warrior]

Did someone say AI?

 

[sevenhelmet]

To be fair, industry has exploited AI as a branding tool in order to separate fools from their money.

That right there, is what it’s all about. Forget all the idealistic hype. The bolded text above should be the city motto for San Jose.

 

[mad dog]

I think AI is using me [for something]…looks like it’s tracking my bullshit Speedmaster pics…

 

[Hair Warrior]

If AW had a chatbot to auto-reply to each new user’s first post, which long time AW member would you have the AI model after for training data?

 

[sevenhelmet]

If AW had a chatbot to auto-reply to each new user’s first post, which long time AW member would you have the AI model after for training data?

That’s the thing with AI. We lose all the unique, idiosyncratic, and annoying things that make us, us.

I’ll stick with all you bloody bastards. Humans are better, even if we can’t stand living with them sometimes.

 

[mad dog]

If AW had a chatbot to auto-reply to each new user’s first post, which long time AW member [cool dude] would you have the AI model after for training data?

 

[GroundPounder]

Did someone say AI?

Wait, are we talking about practice, a game, or AI?

 

[Spekkio]

With all due respect Chuck, I don't need anyone at Apple/Meta/etc to inform me or attempt to force me to be interested in something that I am not. Personally, I don't view them as being particularly smarter than anyone else, just very financially motivated to shove this down our throats with no regard for the long term impacts. When I first experienced a text message in college, I thought it was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, and was astounded that people wanted to use it. So I will fully admit that I have almost zero interest in "tech" or anything in this realm. I don't think anything on my smart phone makes my life better in any way. Possibly more convenient at times, but not better. I guess I just have a much more pessimistic outlook on where this will go. I think there are some limited areas in which AI could be beneficial for humanity (health care/screening being one of the only examples), but for the most part, I see it as only bad. And by that, I mean that I find all of this to be very deeply concerning. I don't think we will look back at this as being the dawn of a new, better era. Hope I'm wrong, but I'm willing to bet every dollar I have that in 10 years, I won't be.

AI, in its current form, is just a very complicated search algorithm that uses the vast amount of information on the internet to generate its output.

If the vast majority of the internet content thought the earth was flat, Chat GPT would write you an essay about why the earth is flat. And the general public will believe it, because it's AI and so must be correct.

That's the potentially dangerous part of this whole thing.

 

[taxi1]

If the vast majority of the internet content thought the earth was flat, Chat GPT would write you an essay about why the earth is flat. And the general public will believe it, because it's AI and so must be correct.

That's the potentially dangerous part of this whole thing.

Truth. Garbage in…

 

[Spekkio]

I used a fairly absurd example to illustrate the point, but these things are using internet forums, public social media posts, etc. to 'learn' information.

There's a LOT of stupid out there, and AI isn't actually 'intelligent' to independently determine fact from fiction.

Right now, I see its best utility as being somewhat of an automatic macro recorder that can potentially automate common tasks for free instead of hiring a software engineering team to develop a program for it. Of course, that will result in a lot of layoffs, especially if you're a typical office worker who answers emails, types in spreadsheets, etc.

 

[taxi1]

We did a DARPA-funded project using AI in design. In that case, the data that the AI learned from was generated by models. To kickstart it we first set the inputs over a broad range and let the model run and generate results, then trained the AI on the input/output pairs that represented “good” results.

Then we let the AI take over on setting the inputs, looking at the outputs, and training itself on the good results. The AI eventually learned to generate good designs that no one had thought of. That was eye-opening. AI demonstrated an ability to tease out relationships from these complex highly coupled models that our meatware did not see.