Alanna 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

I'm not anti the general field of Artificial Intelligence, it's an extremely interesting subject. I am deeply skeptical of the LLM/GPT products that are being deceptively sold to people as "AI solutions" or claiming to be the science fiction of Artificial General Intelligence. The cult-like following developing around them is even more disturbing, it is like something from Dune or W40K.

Please learn how these things actually work, even on a basic level, before making such wild claims.

#ai

Show threadTwotired1d ago
@kelpana Exactly this. I have found AI ideally suited for machine vision; eg inspecting for blemishes in surface finish or part presence/absence. It’s good at answering the question “does or doesn’t this image resemble the sample images.” It doesn’t understand what it’s looking at and it doesn’t need to. It’s just determining whether a data set statistically resembles another data set. Very useful in a situation where you know a defect when you see one, but can’t articulate or quantify a definition.
Show threadTwotired1d ago
@kelpana IMO, anything involving language, ie “meaning”, is a totally different situation.
Show threadJoan of Contention 😷

@Twotired @kelpana Yeah, it seems some of these models can be very good at pattern recognition in images (distinct from pattern matching), and.. that's about it..?

But LLMs? Nope, no, no way. It's probabilistic output based on extremely fancy maths and severe environmental damage. Sin é.

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Show threadAlanna 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️5h ago
@clickhere @Twotired and they have been for years. The difference is business people have found something mass marketable in the chat bot interface plus LLM/GPT combination and are *milking* it.
Show threadJoan of Contention 😷2h ago

@kelpana Totally. The hype is off the scale, and everyone has lost their minds falling for it.

@Twotired