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Nobel Prize 2024

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  • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, the protein folding thing is legitimately impressive and an actual good use for the technology that isnt just harvesting people’s creativity for profit.

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The way to tell so often seems to be if someone has called it AI or Machine Learning.

      AI? “I put this through chatgpt” (or “The media department has us by the balls”)

      ML? “I crunched a huge amount of data in a huge amount of ways, and found something interesting”

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      • keepthepace@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Actually I endorse the fact that we are less shy of calling “AI” algorithms that do exhibit emergent intelligence and broad knowledge. AI uses to be a legitimate name for the field that encompasses ML and we do understood a lot of interesting things about intelligence thanks to LLMs nowadays, like the fact that training on next-word-prediction is enough to create pretty complex world models, that transformer architectures are capable of abstraction or that morality arise naturally when you try to acquire all the pre-requisites to have a normal discussion with a human.

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    • buttfarts@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      omg what is even the point of scientific progress and the advancement of human knowledge unless one specific person gets all the glory. What is science even for if not the validation of some human’s individual ego.

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      • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, what are most of us doing ever at all for all of history if not validating our individual egos in one way or another?

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What is science even for if not the validation of some human’s individual ego.

        Satisfaction of personal curiosity with goverment funding

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the technology that isnt just harvesting people’s creativity for profit.

      It’s the system harvesting people’s creativity for profit. Capitalism did it, capitalism does that, capitalism will always do that. In best case. Otherwise it will harvest people entirely.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The whole “all AI bad” is disconnected and primitivism.

    John J. Hopfield work is SCIENCE with caps. A decade of investigations during the 80s when computational power couldn’t really do much with their models. And now it has been shown that those models work really good given proper computational power.

    Also not all AI is generative AI that takes money out of fanfic drawers pockets or an useless hallucinating chatbot. Neural networks are commonly used in science as a very useful tool for many tasks. Algo image recognition is nowadays practically a solved issue thanks to their research. Proteins folding. Dataset reduction. Fluent text to speech. Speech recognition… AI may be getting more track nowadays because the generative AIs (that also have their own merit, like or not) but there is much more to it.

    As any technological advance there are shitty use cases and good use cases. You cannot condemn a whole tech just for the shitty uses of some greedy capitalists. Well… you can condemn it. But then I will classify you as a primitivist.

    Scientific theory that resulted in practical applications useful to people is why the nobel prize was created to begin with. So it is a well given prize. More so than many others.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed. Which is why we should call it Machine Learning (or Data Science) and continue to torch OpenAI until it is no more.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ‘AI hate’ is usually connected with insane claims like ‘we have “reasoning” model’.

      That shit needs to die in fire.

      I’m still waiting for the full-planet weather model. That will be something.

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      • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m still waiting for the full-planet weather model. That will be something.

        That’s going to be a hard one, given that past weather patterns are increasingly not predictive of future weather patterns, because something keeps dumping CO2 into the atmosphere and raising the global temperature

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    • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Generative AI is really causing a negative association with AI in general to the point where a proper rebranding is probably in order.

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      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Generative AI is part to AI. And it has its own merits. Very big merits. Like or not it is a milestone on the field. That it is mostly hated not because it doesn’t work but because it does.

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      • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Let’s start by not calling it AI anymore. Cause it isn’t.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You sir or madam give me hope that there are still reasonable people on the internet. Well written.

      Wait, are you an AI bot defending itself…?

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Luckily genAI isn’t good enough to sound this real yet… I hope

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    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, sure, Mr. Enshittifist, you can call me that.

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  • IsoSpandy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get the ai hate sentiment. In fact I want ai to be so good that it steals all our jobs. Every single “worker” on the planet. The only job I don’t think they can steal is that of middle management because I don’t think we have digitized data on how to suck your own dick. After everybody is jobless, then we would be free. We won’t need the rich. They can be made into a fine broth.

    Sarcasm aside, I really believe we should automate all menial jobs, crunch more data and make this world a better place, not steal creative content made by humans and make second rate copies.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The problem with AI isn’t the tech itself. It’s what capitalism is doing with it. Alongside what you say, using AI to achieve fully automated luxury gay space communism would be wonderful.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe problem is, you know, capitalism?

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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      • Vigge93@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You are ignoring ALL of the of the positive applications of AI from several decades of development, and only focusing on the negative aspects of generative AI.

        Here is a non-exhaustive list of some applications:

        • In healthcare as a tool for earlier detection and prevention of certain diseases
        • For anomaly detection in intrusion detection system, protecting web servers
        • Disaster relief for identifying the affected areas and aiding in planning the rescue effort
        • Fall detection in e.g. phones and smartwatches that can alert medical services, especially useful for the elderly.
        • Various forecasting applications that can help plan e.g. production to reduce waste. Etc…

        There have even been a lot of good applications of generative AI, e.g. in production, especially for construction, where a generative AI can the functionally same product but with less material, while still maintaining the strength. This reduces cost of manufacturing, and also the environmental impact due to the reduced material usage.

        Does AI have its problems? Sure. Is generative AI being misused and abused? Definitely. But just because some applications are useless it doesn’t mean that the whole field is.

        A hammer can be used to murder someone, that does not mean that all hammers are murder weapons.

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      • renzev@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        When I hear “AI”, I think of that thing that proofreads my emails and writes boilerplate code. Just a useful tool among a long list of others. Why would I spend emotional effort hating it? I think people who “hate” AI are just as annoying as the people pushing it as the solution to all our problems.

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If I just hand wave all the good things and call them bullshit, AI is nothing more than bad things!

        • Lemmy
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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it’s not even impressive enough to make a positive world impact in the 2-3 years it’s been publicly available.

        It literally just won people two Nobel prizes

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      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If AI image generation is so bad why we have so many etsy and patreon artists complaining about it?

        If no one would use it because it is so bad why would anyone care that it is trained on their products?

        Do you know this joke about MAGA and the Schrodinger’s immigrant? They somehow believe that immigrants are both stealing people jobs and lazy and living on wellfare.

        AntiAI bros are somehow similar. AI is at the same time stealing artists jobs and completely useless incapable of producing nothing that people would want.

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    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to everything that’s happened since the industrial revolution but that’s not how it’s going to work

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    • Sas@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The problem is that it will be the rich that are the owners of the AI that stole your job so suddenly we peasants are no longer needed. We won’t be free, we will be broth.

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      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then you have a choice.

        Option 1. Halt scientific and technological progress and be robbed anyway because if capitalists do not get more money out of tech they are getting it out of making you work more hours for less money.

        Option 2. End capitalism.

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      • IsoSpandy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well you see 100 people won’t be able to make soup of trillions. But you know what we a trillion people can do? Run the guillotine for a 100 times

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    • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Had me in the first half, not gonna lie

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    • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would love AI. Still waiting for it. Probably 50 years away (if human society lasts that long).

      What I hate is the term being yet another scientific term to get stolen and watered down by brainless capitalists so they can scam money out of other brainless capitalists.

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      • Randomguy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What I hate is the term being yet another scientific term to get stolen and watered down created by brainless capitalists researchers and scientists so they can scam money out of describe ideas to other brainless capitalists researchers and scientists.

        The term AI as we use it today has been in use in the field of computer science for more than 50 years

        The term that you describe as AI is what researchers in the field have called AGI for more than a decade.

        The only place where AI is used to mean a artificial intelligence on the same level of humans is in fucking science fiction.

        Is it hard to comprehend that when people say AI on the topic of something made by computer scientists they refer to the thing computer scientists call AI?

        Do you go on gaming conversations and say: “Um… Akshually… it’s not AI… it’s just a behaviour heuristics 🤓”

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      they will automate all menial jobs, fire %90 of the workers and ask remaining %10 to oversee the AI automated tasks will also doing all other tasks which can not be automated. all so that shareholders can some more billions on top of their existing billions.

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    • NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, Eli Whitney.

      How about the machines automate the complicated jobs to make as many menial jobs for me as possible? Computers these days are all lazy. They could optimize scheduling so the neighbors and I all get time together and time apart for a hundred hours of kicking dirt down at the office each year, instead they hang around doing vapes and abstract paintings of hands.

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    • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For me, it’s because AI is referring to a LLM, which is not AI. Also, these LLMs use a crap load of energy to do things that we can currently do ourselves for much less energy.

      But actual AI? Yes, please!

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Today I learned about AI agents in the news and I just can think: Jesus. The example shown was of an AI agent using voice synthesis to bargain against a human agent about the fee for a night in some random hotel. In the news, the commenter talked about how the people could use this agents to get rid of annoying, reiterative, unwanted phone calls. Then I remembered about that night my in-laws were tricked to give their car away to robbers because they thought my sister in law was kidnapped, all through a phone call.

    Yeah, AI agents will free us all from invasive megacorporations. /s

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  • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why isn’t anyone saying that AI and machine learning are (currently) the same thing? There’s no such thing as “Artificial Intelligence” (yet)

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its more like intelligience is very poorly defined so a less controversial statement is thar General Artificial Intelligience doesn’t exist.

      Also Generative AI such as LLMs are very very far from it, and machine learning in general haven’t yielded much result in the persuit of sophonce and sapience.

      Although they technically can pass a turing test as long as the turing test has a very short time limit.

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    • KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I work in an ML-adjacent field (CV) and I thought I’d add that AI and ML aren’t quite the same thing. You can have non-learning based methods that fall under the field of AI - for instance, tree search methods can be pretty effective algorithms to define an agent for relatively simple games like checkers, and they don’t require any learning whatsoever.

      Normally, we say Deep Learning (the subfield of ML that relates to deep neural networks, including LLMs) is a subset of Machine Learning, which in turn is a subset of AI.

      Like others have mentioned, AI is just a poorly defined term unfortunately, largely because intelligence isn’t a well defined term either. In my undergrad we defined an AI system as a programmed system that has the capacity to do tasks that are considered to require intelligence. Obviously, this definition gets flaky since not everyone agrees on what tasks would be considered to require intelligence. This also has the problem where when the field solves a problem, people (including those in the field) tend to think “well, if we could solve it, surely it couldn’t have really required intelligence” and then move the goal posts. We’ve seen that already with games like Chess and Go, as well as CV tasks like image recognition and object detection at super-human accuracy.

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that heavily depends on how you define “intelligence”. if you insist on “think, reason and behave like a human”, then no, we don’t have “Artificial Intelligence” yet. on the other hand if you consider the ability to play chess or go intelligence, the answer is different.

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      • minyakcurry@monyet.cc ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Honestly I would consider BFS/DFS artificial intelligence (and I think most introductory AI courses agree). But yea it’s a definition game and I don’t think most people qualify intelligence as purely human-centric. Simple tasks like pattern recognition already count as a facet of intelligence.

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    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It very much depends on what you consider AI, or even what you consider intelligence. I personally consider LLMs AI because it’s artificial.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      currently

      There is also ancient thing called expert system

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  • ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What were they doing with AI in Physics and Chemistry? I’ve only heard of Biology/Organic-Chemistry uses.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What were they doing with AI in Physics and Chemistry?

      Grifting.

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  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A I!

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