Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.
  • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    AI has some legit uses but the hype around it is mostly VC’s throwing money at buzzwords while the actual tech is nowhere near the “AGI revolution” they keep promising us lol.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      A machine learning suite that spends hour after hour screening trillions of potentially medically useful molecules = kind of interesting.

      A subscription to a chatbot that writes buggy code that has to be meticulously combed over before you dare put it into production, and might wind up appearing in Google search results = awful, but it’s what’s selling for some reason?

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        The latter isn’t even selling, just used because it is free to use or they jammed it into an existing ecosystem like Copilot.