• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    No it’s just straight up lazy and leading people to believe ChatGPT is out there solving archeological problems and is actually valuable. Just call it machine learning and go. Most non tech people won’t care, and they won’t keep having that association reinforced.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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      2 months ago

      You’ve got a point there, i did not take into account that this reinforces the perception of LLMs as something close to AGI (which was pushed heavily by Altman and Amodei).

      • Kay Ohtie@pawb.social
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        2 months ago

        The other problem is the “um actually the field of ML is a subset of AI” people because, technically machine learning is a subset of the field of artificial intelligence mathematics.

        But them acting like that isn’t doing the devil’s dirty work to “um actually” at everyone is absurd.