Post #2585312

2025-07-29 16:04 UTC

@mossman@social.vivaldi.net It's used interchangeably because most people simply don't have a clue and repeat some bits they've heard somewhere, resulting in others repeating that and so on. Laziness in language usage is one of the bigger problems in today's times. In the first place, calling self-learning algorithms Artificial Intelligences is already wrong since intelligence is a cognitive process that requires to make connections between different pieces of information/knowledge. An algorithm is incapable of that and thus it's not intelligent. 🤷‍♂️ @LordCaramac@discordian.social @cybso@osna.social @FediThing@social.chinwag.org @krautdragon@mastodon.social

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@mossman@social.vivaldi.net 2025-07-29 16:48

@TobiWanKenobi@kolektiva.social I should add that when my company decided to go all-in on the "AI" thing (and this was a few months before it really hit the headlines) there were some internal conference calls about all the upcoming plans and how we should be trying to apply "AI" everywhere as much as possible. I'm in engineering, so I half-joked "surely I can't find an application of genAI to calculate stress in a component or design a part!?" and was pretty firmly smacked down for not understanding the difference between LLMs and the "real AI" to be used in our business. A few years later and I'm constantly shaking my head at the next announced "agentic AI solution" being deployed on our intranet to "help us" on client projects. It's all chatbot, all the time. Needless to say I know of not a single colleague successfully making use of any of these tools for anything except document summaries etc.

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@Okanogen@mastodon.social 2025-07-29 21:49

@TobiWanKenobi@kolektiva.social @mossman@social.vivaldi.net @LordCaramac@discordian.social @cybso@osna.social @FediThing@social.chinwag.org @krautdragon@mastodon.social 💯

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