✧✦Catherine✦✧💭 the difference between "AI" and "ML" is whether it primarily benefits capital or labor
this isn't a serious post, just a reflection on a few conversations i've seen that try to draw the line & the line not being there like at all technically speaking
Cassandra is only carbon now@whitequark It doesn't strike me as a deeply unserious take, either.
@xgranade correct
Rob Flickenger ⚡️@whitequark ML is what we do to data.
AI is what VCs do to us.
AI is what VCs do to us.
@hackerfriendly also good
wbftw@whitequark tracks, I think: AI is a marketing term (if we are being generous), contexts that seeded the term were/are about $$$$.
Thomas@whitequark if you wanna increase profit: AI
if you wanna throw large amounts of compute against a difficult problem for computers and likely still fail: ML
everything else: BS
if you wanna throw large amounts of compute against a difficult problem for computers and likely still fail: ML
everything else: BS
Brandon@whitequark can’t spell “share price” without “AI”
Sludge@whitequark Marxism-Leninism? Yeah, sounds about right
💭 Machine Learning and Marxism-Leninism imply the existence of Machine-Leninism
Shiz@SludgePhD @whitequark NieR Automata
morgan@whitequark in 2026 this is Correct and serious imo
@whitequark some of my colleagues are clinging to the hope that the phrase AI can be saved but eh
@whitequark or as we were saying when I started in academia "machine learning is what we do in scikit-learn, ai is what they do in powerpoint"
@fay i only say "not serious" because whether something primarily benefits capital or labor is often a really hard question to answer
Jacqueline@whitequark AI is a marketing term for a product no sane person wants to use. ML is a real technology with real applications.
Kirtai 🏳️⚧️@whitequark
The next AI Winter cannot come soon enough.
The next AI Winter cannot come soon enough.