We must teach people (i.e., JOURNALISTS) to stop saying #AI w/o distinguishing between #LLMs -- the source of endless harms like massive IP theft, academic cheating, psychosis, lies, environmental damage -- and purpose-built #ML systems, which advance science, medicine, and engineering.

Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social‬
A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Below is a screenshot from: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

RE: https://aus.social/@perkinsy/116825631938165912

“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”

It’s had to rehire what they call “greybeards” 🤣