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as a loser employed in the tech sector ive never before wanted to beat people with hammers before being exposed to ai boosters on a daily basis (hexbear.net)
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i fucking hate these people so much man

im getting fired if i dont use this bullshit, already one person was "anonymously" shat on during a meeting for not doing so. fortunately not me

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[–] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think that's one of the things that irks me most about this LLM bubble. I think ML has really cool applications in research, approximate tasks with margins for error like image classification, upscaling etc. It was one of my favorite topics during my CS degree. But now it's tainted by the gen "AI" slop machines, so all the interesting breakthroughs of real practical ML get chalked up to "AI" innovation and people just assume chatGPT is responsible when it's actually a team of researchers building small efficient programs. Ofc ML is less efficient than traditional computational approaches that can work deterministically so those should always be prioritized, but it has its uses for sure.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    This right here. The chat bot shit is shit. The tech analyzing X Rays to detect lung cancers is great. The problem is they can’t just sell “machine augmented professionals” they need to sell “A.I.” which is a marketing department fever dream

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    The tech analyzing X Rays to detect lung cancers is great

    well, it's great if it's actually doing something novel and not just noticing that there's a strong correlation with older medical equipment, certain kinds of poverty, and smoking, so it's just assuming a shitty xray is cancer.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    There's a few problems (like image recognition) where deterministic approaches are either nonfunctional or far more resource and time intensive. But like, thats not what we get. Capital declares we shall feed it so we feed it. We will hit an ai winter again. Third time and its gonna hurt more than the others. We had one in the 70s, one in the 90s (though that was also affected by the dismantling of the soviet onion and drying up of DOD funding), and now its wormed its way into everything and is gonna be painful when it hits.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago*

    The various projects I say pre-2020 involving machine learning were genuinely interesting.

    You were seeing a computer think in a way analogous to biological brains.

    And then the LLMs came.

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