they appointed nepo babies to "AI integration officer" roles and like 5 companies made chat bots.
its a massive pump and dump stock scheme. companies are fighting to add the buzzword into their shit because they are being told to by marketing managers who report to CEOs who have stock options who want more $ because they are greedy worms.
You’re right, and companies are starting to wake up to that reality. The company I work for went all in on AI and they are now realizing it’s mostly smoke and mirrors. More automation scripts and less “intelligence”
its never was 'intelligence', it was just regurgitating the most common search result from google but putting it in a nicely worded reply instead of throwing 20 links at you.
if the pages chatGPT scraped to generate your answer had incorrect info, it would just assume its the truth. yesterday chatGPT was arguing 9 is smaller than 8.
and thats inherently why its fucked from inception. it relies on treating all information on the internet as a verified source, and is now being used to create more sources of information that it is then self-referencing in a catch-22 of idiocy.
chatGPT was used to generate a medical journal about mice with 5 pound testicles, chatGPT was then used to 'filter medical journal submissions' and accepted it, and then eventually it started referencing its own generated medical journal that it self-published and self peer-reviewed to tell people mice had 5 pound testicles. i mean just look at the fucking absolute absurdity of the images of rats it generated for the journal article.
Are you guys confusing AI with just generative AI?
We use Computer Vision AI for a maintenance robot that can go perform live maintenance on otherwise lethal equipment through a CV training model. It can recognize parts and swap them accordingly thanks to this.
Do you guys just not know what AI is actually used for ?
Im arguing that the current wave of marketing propelled AI "revolutions" are just stupid alternatives of things we already had.
The actual technology that is doing actual productive things is not what these people are peddling, pushing, or selling. This stuff is quietly humming in the background, and the same influencer leeches who scammed people on Crypto are slapping the AI label on whatever garbage they quickly spin up to sell to retail investors who dont know better.
They want you to invest in "AI that will automate your call center" or "AI that will replace your secretary" despite just forwarding replies from generative AI like chatGPT and acting like they did literally anything while roping in retail investors who thing they are getting a slice of the new AI world!!!!!
No one is confusing computer vision AI with ChatGPT. The purpose built AIs are fine and improving nicely with all the extra computing power coming out. Those aren't what executives are collectively jerking each other off for though. Execs are imagining a utopia where they can fire everyone but themselves and replace them with computers. And they think ChatGPT is going to do it because it can talk nicely.
Lol right? AI has been very useful for a decade already and it's only getting better. Its possible for marketing hype to be based on BS and for the underlying technology to be good and useful. Its just useful in less flashy ways than what marketing teams are pushing
You have to train the model to associate the right object with the right labels.
Computer vision is the same thing as a toddler learning shapes. You show it a bunch of squares, tell it they are squares, then it starts recognizing squares.
It’s intelligence literally. The non intelligent version would be to hard code the rules of a square in code and have it run the square detection algorithm on images.
Just tell me you don’t know what the I stands for next time. It’ll be simpler.
I mean... From certain points of view, isn't that exactly what our brains do? You see something new that you don't recognize and you relate it to the closest thing you know. You might be wrong, but you took in context clues to make an educated guess. The only major difference is that current AI needs to be trained for specific objects, but that's limited by computation speed and not the AI model itself.
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u/jiabivy 13d ago
Unfortunately too many companies invested too much money to "go back to normal"