So what is intelligence in your general, all-purpose understanding?
Are newborns intelligent? How about dogs? Ants?
You may argue that current AI is still behind an average human adult and therefore not intelligent, but academia is a bit more nuanced.
How are they getting my metadata?
I would agree that scientific practice is far from the ideal in the post, but it doesn't claim that researchers aren't susceptible to those biases. That is why there are processes in place like peer review.
Have you even read the article?
Tankie or not, i giggled
When will people finally stop parroting this sentence? It completely misses the point and answers nothing.
It's opt-in though?
I mean, your suggestive question at least helps me understand your mindset a bit better. If I would see the situation the way you characterize it, I would probably sound the same.
I can only encourage you to try to see tbrough the business bullshit that is undoubtedly there and recognize that there is an actual underlying technological breakthrough with the chance of redefining how we interact with machines.
I'm running a local LLM that I use daily at work to help me brainstorm and the fact that I can run perfect speech to text in real time on my laptop was simply not possible a few years ago.
The AI hate on Lemmy never fails to amaze me
If only more people would understand this, we would already have world peace.
The world is getting better in the long run by almost every metric, don't get sucked into the doomer mentality.
Still fucked up ruling though.
How could you even infer that this was the point they were making? So far off the mark.