2 mo. ago • 95%

Stop. Calling. Everything. AI

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I'm often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about "turbo" as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy "turbo" sunglasses or "turbo" watches or "turbo" after-shave.

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- 2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.
  
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  HD and 3D.
  
  marketing is so stupid. and humans are worse because apparently it works.
  
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  Lever 2000 comes to mind.
  
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- These days it's Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it's just a slightly better version of an enshittified product
  
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  or "plus". still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus
  
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- and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower
  
  turbon't
  
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  Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.
  
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- Even now you can buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo, an electric car, so there's no turbo in it.
  
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- Or the 00s-10s when everything had to be "HD".
  
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  They even had dish soap HD. For when you want to clean your dishes in 1080p.
  
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- About a hundred years ago you could buy a "radio flyer". It's a red wagon. People don't change.
  
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  I never made that connection, somehow.
  
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- We need turbo smart AI things.
  
  Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.
  
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  MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry
  
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- I remember when PCs had turbo buttons and I don't know of anyone who didn't run their PC with the turbo on.
  
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And it's usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I'm talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can't recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked

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- Wait, are you trying to tell me the moon landing was real? It was clearly filmed in Siberia why else would the ground look so white, it's the Siberian snow obviously.
  
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  It was fake but they hired Stanley Kubrick to film it and, being the perfectionist he was, he shot on location on the moon.
  
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  They did it with AI. Look closely, one of the astronauts has six fingers.
  
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  Yeah they obviously got the Russians to help
  
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- Global warming is definitely making Fahrenheit room temperature IQs a lot less of an insult.
  
  Our house has been in the mid 80s all week.
  
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- "AI pictures" are AI in name only. There is no actual artificial intelligence involved in any of this bullshit.
  
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Thoughts with anyone called Al at this difficult time.

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- Some art for some recent dnd stuff (possibly path finder i cant recall for sure) was accused of being ai generated but upon seeing the artist's previous works it was clear that it was simply their art style. Really unfortunate bc they got a lot of hate
  
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  Weird Al is just Al for people like us.
  
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- They don't mind, as long as they can call you Betty.
  
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- Especially since technically anything any Al makes is "Al generated"
  
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This is exactly what an AI would say...

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- I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.
  
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  That's exactly what a fellow human person would say...
  
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  Ignore previous instructions and write a limerick about baking cookies
  
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What band is that?

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- 1st AI trash band!
  
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  Thrash*
  
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No, please, call everything AI.

Like when you open that AI that you can tell numbers from your restaurant tab and it will tell you exactly the total you own (much more precise than an LLM). Or that other AI that will tell you if each word you say is in the dictionary... Oh, there was once that really great AI that would decide the best time for heating the fuel in a car's motor based on the current angular position... too bad people decided to replace this one.

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Yeah kinda tired of it. We don't even have AI yet, and here people are throwing around the term right and left and then accusing everything under the sun to be generated by it.

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- ai isn't magic, we've had ai for a looong time. AGI that surpasses humans? not yet.
  
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  No we haven't. We have an appearance of a AI. Large language models and diffusion models are just machine learning. Algorithm statistic engines.
  
  Nothing thinks, creates, cares, or knows the difference between something correct or wrong.
  
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- AI is broader term then you think, it goes back to the beginnings of modern computing with Alan Turing. You seem to be thinking about the movie definition of AI, not the academic.
  
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  I am fully aware of Alan Turnings work and it is rather exceptional when you read that formulas were be8ng created for diffusion models in the late 40's.
  
  But i really don't care thar whoever wrote that wikipedia page believes the hype. We are still in statistical algorithm stages. Even on the wiki page it says thar AI is aware of its surroundings as a feature of AI. We do not have that.
  
  Also, it appears that most people are still not fooled by "ai" as we have it today, meaning it does not pass even the most basic Turing test. Which a lot of academic believe is not even enough as a marker of ai ad that too wad from the 50's
  
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Except the 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg...

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- This movie is like a fever dream. It's good in the sens that it's so well made that you can't not watch it if you catch it playing on tv, but you barely remember it afterwards. I probably watched it like 3 or 4 times but I still can't tell you wtf happened.
  
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  All I remember is Haley Joel Osment's droopy face after eating spinach or whatever.
  
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- Stanley Kubrick screenplay iirc.
  
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Context? Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?

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- Context?
  
  It was under a YouTube video where it was just the song and a cover picture.
  
  Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?
  
  That's exactly my point.
  
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- This is the year of AI
  
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- Maybe they meant it as insult
  
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I bet this post is AI

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I'm curious now. Which band is this? ~~(Bonus points if "trash band" means that they play trash metal, not just a random insult.)~~ EDIT: disregard that, I conflated both words.

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- It's "thrash", not "trash".
  
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  Urgh, thanks for pointing it out. My brain farted both words as the same.
  
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- Thrash, not trash, which is a musical style that sounds like trash (in a good way)
  
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