Comment on How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet?

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• suodrazah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just a stupid probability bucket. The term AI shits me.

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  • xep@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Statistical methods have been a longstanding mainstay in the field of AI since its inception. I think the trouble is that the term AI has been co-opted for marketing.

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• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is true AI, it's just not AGI. Artificial General Intelligence is the sort of thing you see on Star Trek. AI is a much broader term and it encompasses large language models, as well as even simpler things like pathfinding algorithms or OCR. The term "AI" has been in use for this kind of thing since 1956, it's not some sudden new marketing buzzword that's being misapplied. Indeed, it's the people who are insisting that LLMs are not AI that are attempting to redefine a word that's already been in use for a very long time.

  You can see this when chat bots keep giving the same 2 pieces incorrect information. They have no concept of they are wrong.

  Reminds me of the classic quote from Charles Babbage:

  "On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"

  How is the chatbot supposed to know that the information it's been given is wrong?

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  • ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you were talking with a human and they thought something was true that wasn’t actually true, do you not count them as an intelligence any more?

    If they refuse to learn and change their belief? Absolutely.

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• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not a secret. The industry constantly talks about the difference between LLMs and AGI.

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until a product goes through marketing and they slap that ‘Using AI’ into the blurb when it doesn’t.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LLMs are AI. They are not AGI. AGI is a particular subset of AI, that does not preclude non-general AI from being AI.

      People keep talking about how it just regurgitates information, and says incorrect things sometimes, and hallucinates or misinterprets things, as if humans do not also do those things. Most people just regurgitate information they found online, true or false. People frequently hallucinate things they think are true and stubbornly refuse to change when called out. Many people cannot understand when and why they’re wrong.

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      • 0x30507DE@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People can also stop saying words and think for a second about the information they’re actually saying first, whereas an LLM just vomits up words that seem to match the pattern of the rest of the sentence. If I were to ask you what 2 + 2 is, you’d stop, run the math in your head, get 4, then reply with 4. An LLM would just start vomiting out words based on what it’s been trained on without verifying that the information is good (or even relevant), and can end up confidently telling you that 2 + 2 is in fact equal to the cube root of 5 because that’s what the data said so it has to be right, for instance.

        I’m aware this is a drastic oversimplification, and I think the tech is neat (although I avoid non-self-hosted models like the plague due to privacy concerns), but it’s oversold to all hell, and is definitely not even close to intelligent.

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• Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Large language models like GPT, llama, and Gemini don’t create anything new

  That’s because it is a stupid use case. Why should we expect AI models to be creative, when that is explicitly not what they are for?

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  • Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are creative, though:

    They put things that are “near” each-other into juxtaposition, and sometimes the insights are astonishing.

    The AI’s don’t understand anything, though: they’re like bacteria-instinct: total autopilot.

    The real problem is that we humans aren’t able to default to understanding such non-understanding apparent-someones.

    We’ve created a “hack” of our entire mental-system, and it is the money-profit-rules-the-world group which controls its evolution.

    This is called “Darwin Award territory”, at the species-scale.

    No matter:

    The Great Filter, which is what happens when a world-species hasn’t grown-up, but gains adult-level technology ( nukes, entire-country-destroying-militaries, biotech, neurotoxins, immense industrial toxic wastelands like the former USSR, accountability-denial-mechanisms in all corporate “persons”, etc… )

    you have a toddler with a loaded gun, & killing can happen.

    “there’s no such thing as a dangerous gun: only a dangerous man”, as the book “Starship Troopers” pushed…

    Toddlers with guns KILL people in the US.

    AI’s our “gun”, & narcissistic-sociopathy’s our “toddler commanding the ship” nature.

    Maybe we should rename Earth to “The Titanic”, for honesty’s sake…

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have different weights for my two dumbbells and I asked ChatGPT 4.0 how to divide the weights evenly on all 4 sides of the 2 dumbbells. He told me to use 4 half-pound weighs instead of my 2 pound weighs constantly, and finally after like 15 minutes, it admitted that, with my sets of weights, it’s impossible to divide them evenly…

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You used an LLM for one of the things it is specifically not good at. Dismissing its overall value on that basis is like complaining that your snowmobile is bad at making its way up and down your basement stairs, and so it is therefore useless.

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are totally right! Sadly, people think that LLMs are able to do all of these things, while in reality you can teach them that 2+2=5

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