im new to lemmy and i wanna know your perspective about ai
“Hes one of the good ones”
Only talentless losers make A.I. “art.”
If it worked the way that it does in sci-fi I’d have no problem with it. If it could give us cures for cancer and reactionless drives everyone would be happy.
But it doesn’t work like that and if they keep going along the lines of Large Language Models it’ll never work like that. AI as it is right now is a barely functional toy that is being misused by virtually everyone and major businesses alike.
I am perfectly happy for AI research to continue but they need to be realistic about its capabilities and be honest about their valuations of companies. AI research should still be at the level of “in the lab”, it is definitely not a product that should be commercially available yet.
He’s one of the good ones!!!
Wait…
AI as a concept is great. It should 100% be used for scientific and medical research.
But modern AI is a tool of fascists that is destroying our environment and causing more harm than good to our society. Anyone who uses it unironically should be ashamed of themselves. It is absolutely killing people’s ability to think.
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For those confused by the pic, it’s the Iron Giant. Fantastic movie from the 90s, and incredibly sad and nostalgia inducing. Definitely worth a watch.
But yes that’s a clanker
Average user here thinks AI is synonymous with LLMs and that it’s not only not intelligent but also bad for the environment, immoral to use because it’s trained on copyrighted content, a total job-killer that’s going to leave everyone unemployed, soulless slop that can’t create real art or writing, and basically just a lazy cheat for people who lack actual talent or skills.
And they’re right about all of that except the AI equals LLMs thing, but that’s forgivable because the LLM hustlers have managed to make the terms synonymous in most people’s minds through a massive marketing effort.
I would say they are right in that what companies are currently selling as AI is mostly just LLM or machine learning. We don’t have true intelligence. The separation is between what AI did mean in the past before the hype train tried to sell the current snake oil.
Don’t forget the psychosis and other mental impact.
And that’s a good thing.
It’s not just that that’s what the average person thinks, but that’s really the only kind of AI they’re likely to come in direct contact with or is the kind being applied to systems that are directly undermining their lives.
ML has been used for over a decade now in things like cyber security for behavioral analysis and EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) systems. I’ve helped a friend use SLEAP, which analyzes specifically formatted videos of animals to catalog interactions over dozens of hours of footage instead of needing to manually scrub it. In these ways, the serious scientist/engineer does not care what the average person thinks of AI, it has no bearing on the functioning of these systems or the work they perform. The only people that care about the sentiment of the average person are the people that need to keep the hype train going for their product valuations to which I have nothing to say but a full-throated, “Fuck 'em”
LLMs are fundamentally incapable of caring about what it produces and therefore incapable of making anything interesting. In the early days of LLMs’ mainstream uses that issue was somewhat compensated for by randomness and jank, but the subsequent advancements in the technology have mainly made it’s outputs as generic as possible. None of this has to do with the Iron Giant, as he is a fictional character.
One word sums up all that is wrong right now and it is greed.
AI has become synonymous with the worst of human nature hence it has become a loaded term.
Another way to look at this is it is not AI that is the problem we are or more specifically the people that will use AI to control us.
This technology is like the atomic bomb. We are fast racing towards a future were a few people will be able to dictate what everyone will be able to do. The person that controls AI and the computing power associated with it will control the world.This is intoxicating and it has drawn out the worst human beings who want to misuse this technology.
And it has already happened to some degree. Massive data centers, surveillance technology, and AI are being used to profile people and target them for death. In the future AI teachers will become the dominate form of teaching. AI will make our decision and we will be subject to a system without recourse or redressability.
Soon we will have a generation of people who only know what AI has told them. This is the kind of scenario that we have been warned against and the reason that those who dislike like propaganda and misinformation are so upset with where things are heading.
I am not inherently against “AI”. I am against LLM’s because they are both an ecological disaster and a social disaster.
Naw, he a homie. He a real clanka.
Wasn’t he an alien?
If you examine closely, you’ll see there is no AI, but Vin Diesel reading a script (written by humans).
idk who that character is, but i don’t like AI, it is polluting the environment and polluting the internet, all while disrespecting the work of artists (visual artists, musicians, voice actors, writers, photographers, etc)
opt-out is not consent
It’s the Iron Giant.
idk who is that character too. i just wanted to put an image
It’s a really good film, and I recommend The Iron Giant to everyone.
He’s Superman, a good guy, not a clanker
He would be true AI. I would shower him with love.
Just because some cock sucking finance bros call an LLM a AI, doesn’t make it an AI.
You’re not saying “cock sucking” pejoratively, are you ?
I think the people who do that to me are pretty cool tbh
Edit: Not wasting my time with discussion starved trolls.
Why still specify they’re sucking cock, then ? They could just be evil money-hoarding pieces of shit, couldn’t they ?
Hey! Don’t insult shit like that.
I was joking but I didn’t see your user name. I will not interact with you and waste anyone’s time anymore. Goodbye.
Gooooooood riddance.
Atari chess opponent is AI
If every cheating bitch is an AI, then so is the Dancer of the Boreal Valley.
The problem isn’t that “everything is AI” - it’s that people think AI means way more than it actually does.
That superintelligent sci-fi assistant you’re picturing? That’s called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Both are subcategories of AI, but they’re worlds apart from Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are intelligent in a narrow sense: they’re good at one thing - churning out natural-sounding language - but they’re not generally intelligent.
Every AGI is AI, but not every AI is AGI.
It.wouldve.been interesting to see AI before social media. Right now it feels like an extension of social media.
