Replying to @⁨General_Effort@lemmy.world⁩

I’d argue that this news is over-blown. The project has more than a solid and honorable track record with insanely talented engineers behind it. AI is a new technology that is not going anywhere. I would put my faith into their decisions to improve this project by whatever means they think are best.

The truth is most commenters are not technically skilled to evaluate or critique their decisions. If GOS team, who again would be at the top % in the field, feel that this can elevate the project, should we not give them the benefit of the doubt?

Replying to @⁨EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world⁩

It’s not going anywhere because it’s already been here for a very long time, you just didn’t know about it

What people call “AI” is just Machine Learning.

Chatbots, OCR, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Computer Vision, Web Search, Spam filtering or Fraud detection, Personalized ADs, even your phone’s camera processing algorithm.

It’s all Machine Learning, but now under new and fancy “AI” name. And it’s been here for decades.

The reason it blew up this much only now is because people realized that the more data you feed into it, the better the output becomes. And so they started exploring it more, to the extent of causing valid ethical concerns.

Replying to @⁨EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world⁩

Machine learning isn’t going anywhere.

As someone who despises the current slop hype with a passion, you’re correct on this. But only when you exclude LLMs. Because they are garbage with a net negative for mankind. Machine learning as a field however has very useful applications. Typically such that complement human assessment of data, e.g. re-viewing radiology images to flag potentially anomalous images for a second doctor to look at - not in place of the first doctor.

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