It is not apples and oranges. Before people had libraries, they went to the elders for knowledge. It’s very probably that when that happened, some of the elders felt spite towards libraries, because they replaced their roles in society, or diminished them.
Today, AI is doing the same for libraries, albeit with a few minor intermediary phases of the internet as a whole and global searching for information. You used to need to go to the library to read the biography of George Washington. Then someone invented wikipedia. Then someone invented an algorithm that can take sources from Wikipedia and other places and combine them into a coherent natural language response.
So no, not apples and oranges at all, very much the same thing.
rabiezaater@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It is not apples and oranges. Before people had libraries, they went to the elders for knowledge. It’s very probably that when that happened, some of the elders felt spite towards libraries, because they replaced their roles in society, or diminished them.
Today, AI is doing the same for libraries, albeit with a few minor intermediary phases of the internet as a whole and global searching for information. You used to need to go to the library to read the biography of George Washington. Then someone invented wikipedia. Then someone invented an algorithm that can take sources from Wikipedia and other places and combine them into a coherent natural language response.
So no, not apples and oranges at all, very much the same thing.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, entirely apples and oranges. Like not even close. If your argument was about encyclopedias vs Wikipedia then you would have a point.
rabiezaater@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What did people use for knowledge before libraries? Elders, right?
What did people use for retrieving knowledge before AI? Wikipedia/Google. Before that? Libraries.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jesus christ. Are you an ai? You should look up what a false equivalence is. Ai is making people more stupid, you don’t gain knowledge from ai.