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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

All aboard the hype train! We need to stop using the term "AI" for advanced auto complete. There is not even a shred of intelligence in this. I know many of the people here already know this, but how do we get this message to journalists?! The amount of hype being repeated by respectable journalists is sickening.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

people have been calling literal pathfinding algorithms in video games AI for decades. This is what AI is now and I think it's going to be significantly easier to just accept this and clarify when talking about actual intelligence than trying to fight the already established language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

While you're not wrong, I don't ever recall people en masse believing a game AI was truly intelligent. Everyone was always aware of the truth. There just isn't a great name for the computer players. I think it's an important distinction here because people do believe ChatGPT is intelligent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Too late, the journalists have been replaced by advanced auto completes already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If you can be replaced by advanced autocomplete, you're not really a "journalist"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Well, the “journalists” have not been replaced. But most of the content creating industry were not really that and have, as you say, started to be replaced.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is intelligence?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My organic neural network (brain) > yours (smooth brain)

I jest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I know many of the people here already know this, but how do we get this message to journalists?!

Journalists have this information, but articles about it probably generate 10% of the clicks, shares and eyeballs->ad revenue that either the hype or the scaremongering does.