Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months agoI find that a lot of discourse around AI is… “off”. Sensationalized, or simplified, or emotionally charged, or illogical, or simply based on a misunderstanding of how it actually works. I wish I had a rule of thumb to give you about what you can and can’t trust, but honestly I don’t have a good one; the best thing you can do is learn about how the technology actually works, and what it can and can’t do.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For a while Google said they would revolutionize search with artificial intelligence. That hasn’t been my experience. Someone here mentioned working on the creative side instead. And that seems to be working out better for me.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, it’s much better at “creative” tasks (generation) than it is at providing accurate data. In general it will always be better at tasks that are “fuzzy”, that is, they don’t have a strict scale of success/failure, but are up to interpretation. Generating images, text, etc. is a good fit.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That sounds about right. I heard that the recommendation from AI to put glue on your pizza was from a joke on Reddit about how to keep cheese from falling off the pizza. So obviously the AI doesn’t know what a good source of information is from a bad source of information. But as you say something that’s fuzzy and doesn’t need to be 100% accurate works pretty well apparently. Also my logic is a little fuzzy once in awhile myself.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, exactly