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Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
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"The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent," he added. "Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry."

Needless to say, we haven't seen anything like that yet. OpenAI's top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail's pace and requires constant supervision.

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[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The mechanism of machine learning based on training data as used by LLMs is at its core statistics without contextual understanding, the output is therefore only statistically predictable but not reliable. Labeling this as "AI" is misleading at best, directly undermining democracy and freedom in practice, because the impressively intelligent looking output leads naive people to believe the software knows what it is talking about.

People who condone the use of the term "AI" for this kind of statistical approach are naive at best, snake oil vendors or straightout enemies of humanity.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Can you name a company who has produced an LLM that doesn't refer to it generally as part of "AI"?

can you name a company who produces AI tools that doesn't have an LLM as part of its "AI" suite of tools?

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How do those examples not fall into the category "snake oil vendor"?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

what would they have to produce to not be snake oil?

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wrong question. "What would they have to market it as?" -> LLMs / machine learning / pattern recognition

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't you just take issue with whatever the new name for it was instead? "Calling it pattern recognition is snake oil, it has no cognition" etc

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