I’m curious to get a general pulse on how people here view the rapid evolution of AI, specifically on lemmy. On one side, there’s growing interest in local open-weights models, self-hosted setups, and practical developer/productivity tools. On the other, there seems to be a growing list, I can't keep track of, that are seen as major concerns. I'm not here to pick sides or be biased in one corner. Im genuinely curious what people have to say about AI in general. And maybe it will help me and other get a better handle on how we perceived it in our ever changing world.

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[–] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

We've been using AI for decades and while generative AI is widely despised and mostly deserving of that despite, lumping all AI together while calling out the harms is doing a disservice to a lot of useful AI techniques and tools.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 hours ago

    Well, they did that on purpose, no? To defect criticism.

    To distinguish them I would call the other stuff machine learning, which is what we already called it before, and the LLMs as AI, since that's what the common people think of when they say that word.

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