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Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ezmack@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Feel like we've got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you've got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under their chins like "bro this is so scary how good we made this thing". Seems like bullshit.

I've seen people generating bits of programming with it which seems useful but idk man. Coming from CNC I don't think I'd just send it with some chatgpt code. Is it all hype? Is there something actually useful under there?

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[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

AI hasn’t really changed meaning since the 50s. It has always been the field of research about how to make computers perform tasks that previously were limited to only humans. The target is always moving because once AI researchers figure out how to solve one task with computers it’s no longer limited to humans anymore. It gets reduced to “just computations”.

There’s even a Wikipedia page describing this phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

AGI is the ultimate goal of AI research. That’s when there’s no more tasks left that only humans can do.

[-] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, you're pointing out what I am - that over time AI has referred to very different technologies and capabilities.

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