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In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
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Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#22I completely agree, I think even in some cases eventually AI should be combined with a basic algorithm, for example chatGPT sometimes gives wrong math answers, which makes sense because it is just generating what it "says" based on it's data. If it could take the equation it finds though and plug it into a simple calculator algorithm then the answer would be correct. Just simple example, but you know what I mean..
AI (language models) are already being combined with basic algorithms as you say to solve issues like not being able to “do” math.
Yes, I agree! Just wanted to give an example though of how a basic algorithms should not be forgotten :)
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#23This doesn't seem to be about improvement nor about algorithms. It's about bolting AI on top of everything (because that's the style at the time) for the sake of being able to tell that it has AI. From marketing pov it kind of makes sense. If I think about it, if there are two otherwise equal toilet brushes, I will pick the one that has AI too.
out of all the things an ai proffers, i have yet see one, wash windows; swweep floors; scrub toilets; or make coffee.
if AI could do those things, seamlessly, then i would bite, other than that it looks and smells like a grift.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#24This doesn't seem to be about improvement nor about algorithms. It's about bolting AI on top of everything (because that's the style at the time) for the sake of being able to tell that it has AI. From marketing pov it kind of makes sense. If I think about it, if there are two otherwise equal toilet brushes, I will pick the one that has AI too.
Cars are a good counterexample. Low-tech cars have much less troubles. Eventually full-featured ones will also be consistently reliable and secure but we're going through growing pains. Safety features that can be enabled/disabled are a good advancement though.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#25This doesn't seem to be about improvement nor about algorithms. It's about bolting AI on top of everything (because that's the style at the time) for the sake of being able to tell that it has AI. From marketing pov it kind of makes sense. If I think about it, if there are two otherwise equal toilet brushes, I will pick the one that has AI too.
Cars are a good counterexample. Low-tech cars have much less troubles. Eventually full-featured ones will also be consistently reliable and secure but we're going through growing pains. Safety features that can be enabled/disabled are a good advancement though.
Software today might be more like cars in the 1950s.
Every year, cars needed to feature new, useless styling to be attractive to buyers. Cars were often replaced annually so that the neighbors could see your taller fins and space-age styling.
This also is the era when seatbelts were known to save lives but were not included in most cars.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly have no clue what people expect ai to "obsolete". The world doesn't work like that.
My friend is a tax accountant. I hope I am wrong, but I am worried for her entire profession. It seems more about memorization of the massive & enormously complex tax code, and less about actual problem solving. This seems very well suited to an AI. I suspect such professions will be decimated in the near future.
Fyi decimation means reduced by 10%. The term comes from executing one in ten soldiers in a unit that refuses to follow orders.
Anyway, I'm curious how an AI would look for someone embezzling funds. There's more to the job than just memorizing calculation pipelines. I know I wouldn't use an AI accountant unless the state accepted liability for its failures.