Retool, a development platform for business software, recently published the results of its State of AI survey. Over 1,500 people took part, all from the tech industry:...

Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated::undefined

Largely because we understand that what they’re calling “AI” isn’t AI.

@marcos@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
-261Y

It absolutely is AI. A lot of stuff is AI.

It’s just not that useful.

cheesepotatoes
link
fedilink
English
21Y

deleted by creator

@Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
22
edit-2
1Y

The decision tree my company uses to deny customer claims is not AI despite the business constantly referring to it as such.

There’s definitely a ton of “AI” that is nothing more than an If/Else statement.

for many years AI referred to that type of technology. It is not infact AGI but AI historically in the technical field refers more towards decision trees, and classification/ linear regression models.

@Wrench@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
81Y

That’s basically what video game AI is, and we’re happy enough to call it that

This is a growing pet peeve of mine. If and when actual AI becomes a thing, it’ll be a major turning point for humanity comparable to things like harnessing fire or electricity.

…and most people will be confused as fuck. “We’ve had this for years, what’s the big deal?” -_-

@pirat@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
51Y

As in AGI?

@Admax@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
2
edit-2
1Y

I’ve seen it refered to as AGI bit I think itns wrong. Chat GPT isnt intelligent in the slightest, it only makes guesses on what word is statistically more likely to come up next. There is no thikinking or problem solving involved.

A while ago I saw an article that with a tittle along the lines of “spark of AGI in ChatGPT 4” because it chose to use a calculator tool when facing a problme that required one. That would be AI (and not AGI). It has a problem, it learns and uses available tools to solve it.

AGI would be on a whole other level.

Edit: Grammar

The argument “it just predicts the most likely next word” while true massively under values what it even means to predict the next word or token. Largely these predictions are based on sentences and ideas the model has trained on from its data sets. It’s pretty intelligent if you think about it. You read a text book then when you apply the knowledge or take a test you use what you read to form a new sentence in relation to the context of the question or problem. For the models “text prediction” to be correct it has to understand certain relationships between complex ideas and objects to some capacity. Yes it absolutely is not as good as human intelligence. But what it’s doing is much more advanced then text to type on your phone keyboard. It’s a step in the right direction, over hyped right now but the hype is funneling cash into research. The models are already getting more advanced. Right now half of what it says is hot garbage but it can be pretty accurate.

@eronth@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
41Y

Right? Like, I, too, predict the next word in my sentence to properly respond to inputs with desired output. Sure I have personality (usually) and interests, but that’s an emergent behavior of my intelligence, not a prerequisite.

It might not formulate thoughts the way we do, but it absolutely emulates some level of intelligence, artificially.

I think so many people overrate human intelligence, thus causing them to underrate AI. Don’t get me wrong, our brains are amazing, but they’re also so amazing that they can make crazy cool AI that is also really amazing.

People just hate the idea of being meat robots, I don’t blame em.

BlanketsWithSmallpox
link
fedilink
English
31Y

No, INT.

@kromem@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
21Y

Given that AI isn’t purported to be AGI, how do you define AI such that multimodal transformers capable of developing abstract world models as linear representations and trained on unthinkable amounts of human content mirroring a wide array of capabilities which lead to the ability to do things thought to be impossible as recently as three years ago (such as explain jokes not in the training set or solve riddles not in the training set) isn’t “artificial intelligence”?

Create a post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


  • 1 user online
  • 241 users / day
  • 624 users / week
  • 1.4K users / month
  • 4.49K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 7.42K Posts
  • 84.8K Comments
  • Modlog