Me too, but I make pathfinding algorithms for video game characters. The truly classic Artificial Intelligence.
Old comic, more relevant than ever
Submitted 7 months ago by smeg@feddit.uk to science_memes@mander.xyz
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pennomi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I appreciate your work. Rock and Stone.
Water_Melon_boy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Did I hear a Rock and Stone!?
bobotron@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I still remember fighting grunts in the original half life for the first time and being blown away. Your work makes games great!
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s been a while since I looked at how Valve does it but it could be called a primitive expert system. And while the HL1 grunts were extraordinary for their time, HL2’s combine grunts are still pretty much the gold standard. Without the AI leaking information to the player via radio chatter it would feel very much like the AI is cheating because yes, HL2’s grunts are better at tactics than 99.99% of humans. It also helps that you’re a bullet sponge so them outsmarting you, like leading you into an ambush, doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re done for.
OTOH they’re a couple of pages of state-machines that would have no idea what to do in the real world.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 months ago
<sweats in Opposing Force>
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So many walls being ran into over the years!
ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
LLMs (or really ChatGPT and MS Copilot) having hijacked the term “AI” is really annoying.
In more than one questionnaire or discussion: Q: “Do you use AI at work?” A: “Yes, I make and train CNN (find and label items in images) models etc.” Q: “How has AI influenced your productivity at work?” A: ???
Can’t mention AI or machine learning in public without people instantly thinking about LLM.
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word “crypto”
dvlsg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m still mad that ML doesn’t refer to that family of programming languages anymore.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Luckily that was only the abbreviation and not the actual word. I know that language changes all the time, constantly, but I still find it annoying when a properly established and widely (within reason) used term gets appropriated and hijacked.
I mean, I guess it happens all the time in with fiction, and in sciences you sometimes run into a situation where an old term just does not fit new observations, but please keep your slimy, grubby, way-too-adhesive, klepto-grappers away from my perfectly fine professional umbrella terms. :(
Please excuse my rant.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I had a first stage interview with a large multinatiomal construction company where I’d be “the only person in the organization sanctioned to use ai”
they meant: use chatgpt to generate blogs
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 months ago
“That’s some high security clearance to have a computer rapidly tap auto-complete for entire paragraphs, hoss…wait it pays how much?(Ahem) I shall take this solemn responsibility of the highest order so very seriously!” Lol
marcos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We are just taking “crypto” back to mean something useful. It was just a matter of some stupid people losing enough money.
I hope in a few years we can take “AI” back too.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
“AI” will never shake the connotations science fiction has given it. The association is always going to skew towards positronic brains and Commander Data.
In the world of Actual Machines, “AI” is a term that should barely be tolerated in advertising departments, let alone anything remotely close to R&D
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
AI will be taken back.
spoiler
by avian influenza
finkrat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Investors are such emotionally led beings
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
They’re just betting on what will get bailed out because of their own bribes. It’s pure feedback at this point; all noise and no signal.
Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
I mean yeah, but he should still walk into the sea.
Waldowal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As an older developer, you could replace “machine learning” with “statistical modeling” and “artificial intelligence” with “machine learning”.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 7 months ago
“I’m into if statements lately”
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
“It’s the same picture.”
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think people are hesitant to call ML “statistical modeling” because traditional statistical models approximate the underlying phenomena; e.g., a logarithmic regression would only be used to study logarithmic phenomena. ML models, by contrast, seldom resemble what they’re actually modeling.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
fuzzy logic
lightnegative@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I hear this all the time in my field.
“Can you just fuzzy match the records between the systems?”
cmfhsu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We used to distinguish AI as automatically / programmatically making a decision based on an ML model, but I’m guilty of calling it AI for wow factor, lol
tory@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My old coworker used to say this all the time back around 2018:
“What’s the difference between AI and machine learning?
Machine learning is done in Python. AI is done in PowerPoint.”
FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 months ago
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence, so I don't see anything wrong here. The character's using a more generic term when talking to a layperson.
apocalypticat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think the point that they’re making is that they used the latest buzz word for the people dishing out the dough.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 months ago
Yes, and I'm saying there's nothing wrong with that "buzz word." It's accurate, just more generic.
I see a lot of people these days raising objections that LLMs and whatnot "aren't really artificial intelligence!" Because they're operating from the definition of artificial intelligence they got from science fiction TV shows, where it's not AI unless it replicates or exceeds human intelligence in all meaningful ways. The term has been widely used in computer science for 70 years, though, applying to a broad range of subjects. Machine learning is clearly within that range.
Emptiness@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There needs to be a new taunting community for this mlm similar to the one for #buttcoin.
Rolando@lemmy.world 7 months ago
!fuck_ai@lemmy.world and sometimes !sneerclub@awful.systems
MBM@lemmings.world 7 months ago
AI is a common topic on !techtakes@awful.systems (the same instance has !buttcoin@awful.systems)
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Hopefully this one will age better than Buttcoin (est 2011) though.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Whenever people say “AI”, I like to mentally insert an M, G and C: ✨Magic✨
Or as it’s also known:
✨I don’t want to explain what I actually did, so here’s a meaningless word to stop you asking questions.✨Socsa@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
One guy spends a summer implementing a backdrop algorithms in CUDA and now my mom thinks butterflies are stealing her blood at night.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Idea for future D&D side plot: butterflies are stealing blood at night.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Crimson Lepids”
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Prompt Engineer: “I am a machine teacher.”
RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 7 months ago
This should be at !programmer_humor@programming.dev
CluckN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pshh, I’m working on an AI blockchain cloud based customer first smart learning adaptive agile Air Fryer that will blow the competition away.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I ran that through Bing AI real quick lol
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brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ataliative 😮
Adetvi Learning 😲
Blowv the ciompetittio 🤯
CluckN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m surprised it’s able to make readable text.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Yeah these look exactly like things I’d see on billboards in Vegas when certain conventions are in town…
drolex@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I will probably use these images in a corporate PowerPoint. I’m not asking for your permission, I’m warning you. Sorry, it’s too good. (I will credit you as a CTO of some company ending in -SYS or - LEA if you want)
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ahh I miss the days when people who knew and used generative AI understood they are best for shits and giggles.
Pardal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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nolannice@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Please God tell me it has individually packaged chicken nugget pods with DRM and more plastic waste than food 🤤
businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
and you can only control it through our official mobile app!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Same but better
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Does it have a voice assistant so it can be voice controlled and totally not to violate our privacy?
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months ago
That’s some real blue-sky thinking
otacon239@feddit.de 7 months ago
Boy do I have the product for you: youtu.be/F_HOrMmWoMA?si=sNxyxbwaKOnZiPqW
lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Nah, I’m only interested in deep learning
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m in.