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*falsetto* Nailed it!

AI is a juicero for capital to squeeze labour l

Put some sparkles on it and call it AI.

We've recently purchased a new car. Toyota Corolla. It has the sort of "driver assists" on it that would probably be classed as 'self driving' by the owner of Tesla. In no way, however, is it an autopilot system but I can see how someone with a limited understanding of reality would market it thus.

I still read AL for Ai, and I think there should be periods after each letter. A.I. ... PET PEEVE. I freely acknowledge AL is easier to type. I mean AI. Frankly, it deserves NO important capitalization a'tall.

It totally is performing its own experiments www.chemistryworld.com/news/first-g...

I tend to think of "AI" as the 2020s equivalent of the 1990s "multimedia" and "Internet solution", which became almost entirely meaningless in the hands of marketers.

In this paper, they demonstrate an AI that will propose hypotheses and select the best one via an election process arxiv.org/abs/2502.18864 new hyptheses are novel

One of my favourite facts about AI, learned from Yarden Katz’s excellent book, Artificial Whiteness, was that the term was coined in the 1950s essentially because researchers thought it would be the one most likely to get money out of the Pentagon.

LLM. The things being passed off as AI are really large language model scripts. Think of the whole thousand monkeys with typewriters, only substitute parrots. Real AI is supposed to be an independently thinking machine, not a parrot regurgitating your uncle’s racist and sexist thoughts.

Machine learning might be a better term (to continue) to use for the latter. Although that used to be called robotics which is an equal misnomer.

The proper term for what is now available is DI (Directed Intelligence), AI is much more complex and not be something we are trying to accomplish.

How can AI that aggregates ideas from scanning fiction works be truly 'creative'? It can imitate a writer's style but where does the originality spring from? I'm sure Amazon is being flooding with AI-generated 'fan fiction.'

marketeers can ruin anything

We might need to use the term "GOFAI" to distinguish. Or use the proper term for things like ChatGPT: "LLM AI."

Do we call the good AI non-generative? Or is there a preferred term in use?

Generative AI has the potential to have positive impact from: novel treatments, drug identification, health coaching, prioritizing what to research. All this is already happening

Always preferred the SI to AI... Simulated Intelligence.

AI seems to be wrong a lot. I'm pretty much ignoring any news that doesn't talk about that.. If it's wrong because it frequently hallucinates, I'm not sure it's a really good business tool. Certainly not good for running a government.

So...so tired of "AI" talk. Closest I've ever seen to "machine learning" (a misnomer for clever algorithms written by wildly intelligent people) in practice is Abnormal Security. Such a neat solution that works very well.

The main thing it means is a huge overuse of water that humans are going to need to drink in order to survive in the rapidly warming climate.