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Firing people for AI: not going so well (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This somehow reminds me of a bunch of senior managers in corporate communications on LinkedIn who got all excited over the fact that with GenAI, you can replace the background of an image with something else! That's never been seen before, of course! I'm assuming that in the past, these guys could never be bothered to look into tools as widespread as Canva, where a similar feature had been present for many years (before the current GenAI hype, I believe, even if the feature may use some kind of AI technology - I honestly don't know). Such tools are only for the lowly peasants, I guess - and quite soon, AI is going to replace all the people who know where to click to access a feature like "background remover", anyway!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Since basically all graphics processing algorithms are linear algebra and all of ML is linear algebra but with a twist, I think fuzzy background removal is definitely AI.

    This term is so meaningless you could call A* an "AI algorithm" at this fucking point

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I'm not surprised that this feature (which was apparently introduced by Canva in 2019) is AI-based in some way. It was just never marketed as such, probably because in 2019, AI hadn't become a common buzzword yet. It was simply called “background remover” because that's what it does. What I find so irritating is that these guys on LinkedIn not only think this feature is new and believe it's only possible in the context of GenAI, but apparently also believe that this is basically just the final stepping stone to AI world domination.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    This term is so meaningless you could call A* an “AI algorithm” at this fucking point

    We did at one point I think, or at least the computer-learnin' school I went to back in the day thought that graph search algorithms should be part of that curriculum.

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