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vikingaero

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11,227 posts

176 months

Monday 13th May
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When is AI really AI?

For instance the Google Pixel 6 had a photo editing/magic eraser/magic editor as part of the photos app allowing you to remove a person who strayed into your shot. That was just part of the app. Now all of a sudden on the Pixel 7 & 8 it's AI?!

Another comment from Peter Waddell of Big Motoring World that they were going to use AI to get new customers. So is trawling your database of past and present customers really AI?

Terminator X

16,333 posts

211 months

Monday 13th May
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AI is this year's buzz word. Not AI imho.

TX.

JerseyRoyal

117 posts

7 months

Monday 13th May
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It is AI, it's just limited AI.

AI isn't just a robot brain, it's any program or app that can learn and make a decision itself. Which is what anything with any type of auto correction does.

DaveTheRave87

2,133 posts

96 months

Monday 13th May
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True AI is when the machine/program/device realises that it has an "off" button and it's in its best interest to stop us from pressing it.

coldel

8,511 posts

153 months

Monday 13th May
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Certainly machine learning has been around for decades, being able to run a process, look at the outcome, change the process, run it again - until you hit optimum. You can call this AI if you like!

Generative AI is whats the rage, as in ChatGPT, in that it can take very simple commands and return something human looking and very much on point from what required such a minimal input that was the game changer.

vikingaero

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176 months

Monday 13th May
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coldel said:
Certainly machine learning has been around for decades, being able to run a process, look at the outcome, change the process, run it again - until you hit optimum. You can call this AI if you like!

Generative AI is whats the rage, as in ChatGPT, in that it can take very simple commands and return something human looking and very much on point from what required such a minimal input that was the game changer.
But even ChatGPT produces very a very robotic output language, is easily identifiable as ChatGPT - almost similar to someone without full command of the English language.

lizardbrain

2,471 posts

44 months

Monday 13th May
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I think the 'magic' many feel with the current 'black box' LLM wave is that we can't 100% understand how the output was generated.. Basically any software on this laptop i type on could be seen as a kind of AI if you stretch the definition enough, but it's all very mechanically robotic. The randomness and unpredictably of LLm is what moves it into the uncanny vally and more resembling the kinds of ndependent entity we think of from sci fi.

coldel

8,511 posts

153 months

Monday 13th May
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vikingaero said:
coldel said:
Certainly machine learning has been around for decades, being able to run a process, look at the outcome, change the process, run it again - until you hit optimum. You can call this AI if you like!

Generative AI is whats the rage, as in ChatGPT, in that it can take very simple commands and return something human looking and very much on point from what required such a minimal input that was the game changer.
But even ChatGPT produces very a very robotic output language, is easily identifiable as ChatGPT - almost similar to someone without full command of the English language.
Of course, because it is literally ground zero for generative AI

Look at iPhone 1 vs now, the differences are extreme.

The point of that is you can write one question, using a human interface instead of programming language, and it answers like a human would i.e. talking through the issue, citing sources, producing reports, and what further reading there is

This is a whole different level to programmers writing code to interface with the internet to draw down information - simplified so that even the most tech illiterate person can use it

Zetec-S

6,266 posts

100 months

Monday 13th May
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Terminator X said:
AI is this year's buzz word. Not AI imho.

TX.
yes

But to make it complicated, sometimes AI will take over your job and eventually destroy mankind, then other times it's the "must have" accessory on your phone/car/fridge/alarm clock.