Why are we training AIs on reddit posts instead of Research Papers? We could be saving the world!
Why are we training AIs on reddit posts instead of Research Papers? We could be saving the world!
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AI isn't saving the world lol
Machine learning has some pretty cool potential in certain areas, especially in the medical field. Unfortunately the predominant use of it now is slop produced by copyright laundering shoved down our throats by every techbro hoping they'll be the next big thing.
It's marketing hype, even in the name. It isn't "AI" as decades of the actual AI field would define it, but credulous nerds really want their cyberpunkerino fantasies to come true so they buy into the hype label.
The term AI was coined in 1956 at a computer science conference and was used to refer to a broad range of topics that certainly would include machine learning and neural networks as used in large language models.
I don't get the "it's not really AI" point that keeps being brought up in discussions like this. Are you thinking of AGI, perhaps? That's the sci-fi "artificial person" variety, which LLMs aren't able to manage. But that's just a subset of AI.
Yeah, these are pattern reproduction engines. They can predict the most likely next thing in a sequence, whether that's words or pixels or numbers or whatever. There's nothing intelligent about it and this bubble is destined to pop.
That "Frightful Hobgoblin" computer toucher would insist otherwise, claiming that a sufficient number of Game Boys bolted together equals or even exceeds human sapience, but I think that user is currently too busy being a bigoted sex pest.