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[–]RandomCollection[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

https://archive.is/bGprp

I think that we are going to find out that a lot of the AI push was overhyped.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There's "intelligence" in the 'intelligence agencies' sense, gathering, parsing and analyzing as much data as can be grabbed, and there's "intelligence" in the sense that most people think of, reasoning, (critical) thinking, creativity, ...

This 'AI push' was always about the first case. They've been gathering data for decades now, and have enough computing power to use algorithms that can dig into all that data and make it look like there's some kind of intelligence.

The public face of this is designed to appear as if this was something borderline magical, but at its root it's just a branch of the surveillance state that we've all been subjected to for longer than the newer generations have been alive. As always, we're the product and we're being served back to ourselves under the guise of some glorious new tech, whose main use behind the scenes (and not even that hidden) is to monitor and control everything that lowly peasants are doing anywhere.

There's overhyping for sure, because they're marketing this to make even more money off of it, but there's also a lot of misdirection. "Look at all the fun uses of this tech, don't look at where the data it's using comes from and how that part of the whole process is working."

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AI is mostly just better pattern recognition at this point.

It's beyond our technology to build what people are thinking of when they say AI - science fiction.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And better pattern recognition is precisely what's needed for the purposes of authoritarianism.

They didn't work to improve this for our benefit or convenience.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Outstanding comment that really explains what exactly we're seeing and how it's just more manipulation of the mindless masses who fall for it. That group includes some close friends who I know will walk right into the trap because they love their toys and the convenience of tech and never count the cost.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What's being currently sold as AI is basically a better search engine. You feed it questions, it digs into the massive amount of available data that's been acquired (from us) through the years, using all the 'natural language querying', indexing and parsing tech that has been improved upon for decades now, with the result being presented in a more 'personal' way. Instead of seeing a list of results, you get something that feels like it's tailored just for you. As usual, they're playing on emotions.

It can be quite useful as a focused search engine. In the context of software development, it's basically a faster way to get code samples and documentation extracts for whichever issue you're currently having without having to go look through various blogs and forums yourself.

If it was sold as the search tool that it is, it would make things a lot clearer for many people, but of course that's not the goal. Gotta make people believe that this is the Next Best Thing Ever™️ and that by jumping on that bandwagon and eating up everything they're being fed, they'll be the most hip people around.

Which keeps them far away from ever wondering what else this tech is being used for, and has been for many years before they worked out how to market it to the general public. Because obviously they didn't come up with it just this year, all at the same time, already in a working and marketable state. Those algorithms have been trained and improved over a long time, and that happened by using them.

They weren't being used for mainstream purposes (funny chats and silly pics) until this year, so what could this possibly have been used for during all those previous years? Maybe somebody should ask Snowden. Oh wait, he already answered that question and ended up stranded in Russia.