Comment on Nobel Prize 2024
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoClassification =/= intelligence.
My spell checker can classify incorrectly spelled words. Is that intelligence? The whole field if a phony grift.
Comment on Nobel Prize 2024
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoClassification =/= intelligence.
My spell checker can classify incorrectly spelled words. Is that intelligence? The whole field if a phony grift.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I don’t get why people are harping on the term used so much. Whether we call it “intelligence” or not, and even how we define “intelligence” (fairly difficult to do), have no bearing on its abilities. Feel free to call it Machine Learning where applicable, although afaik that term has a more specific meaning so ymmv.
People can use AI to sell things or do bad things, because it’s a new and situationally very powerful tool. It’s also something that’s not very well understood, so it’s particularly susceptible to grifting. I would recommend anyone in today’s world to take some time and reslly understand how it works so that you know when people are being truthful about its applications and when they’re just overhyping a nonsense feature.
In the world of the past, access to knowledge determined how successful at learning the truth people were. Today, that success is determined by your ability to discriminate between good and bad information. We have access to nearly infinite knowledge and nearly infinite lies. Don’t waste the opportunity to learn to tell the difference. It is the greatest asset you can have.
If you want specific studies, please specify exactly what you’re looking for, and perhaps I can help after work. Alternatively, if you know already, you can simply try to find them yourself, which imo would be more efficient.