• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Yeah “artificial intelligence” research was going on for at least half a century before LLMs, but the clueless will see this headline and think OMFG ChatGPT is GoNnA RuN tHe AiRpOrT!!1!

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s like people that thought Facebook was the Internet they now think ChatGPT is AI/ML. Here they actually can synthesise tricky situations where a pilot ignores instruction, comes in too fast and even if shit hits the fan automatically put in “circle around at x elevation while we focus on the emergency landing” command.

      I read some time ago that air traffic control is pretty chaotic under the hood and having even just a minimal model that flags “problematic” sounds to me like a major upgrade.

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        21 hours ago

        It doesn’t help that 95% of these headlines do actually refer to LLMs. I’ve spent enough time on here repeating exactly that I hate the conflation of LLMs with AI in general (and the lack of acknowledgement that “AI” has never been well defined), and I still read that headline and thought “oh god no”.

        Still hoping that the LLM bubble collapsing frees up a lot of both expertise and computational capacity to work on actually useful models like this one.

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          16 hours ago

          Since it’s all bunched up under the term AI the bubble burst will also be a drag on any other model research. It’s double edged.