• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Generative AI or AI in general?

    Because AI has tons of uses that are actually very beneficial.

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      AI is a misnomer anyhow. It’s been pretty definitively proven that these machines aren’t using intelligence of any kind, just really efficient search algorithms that are designed to smash things together in a way that looks like something resembling human speech and human made art. But that is the absolute limit of their ability and their potential.

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      Why do people act like generative AI has no uses? AlphaFold2 was a generational leap in protein folding. Alphatensor was used to find previously unknown sparse matrix multiplication algorithms. These are all examples of generative ai being useful on a societal scale.

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      A very small example: First Person Shooters and other action games would be very boring without enemy AI.

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        9 hours ago

        Don’t get confused here. That kind of “AI” has nothing to do with the AI we’re talking about here. We had NPCs decades ago in games when AI wasn’t even a thing yet.

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          That’s what the person I was replying to was asking. NPC scripting is still a form of AI and can get pretty advanced (Alien: Isolation).

          When you’re talking about Generative AI it’s important to specify, because there are legitimate forms of AI that aren’t intended to steal jobs.

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            4 hours ago

            NPC scripting is still a form of AI

            Absolutely not. Not even remotely close. NPC scripting follows a pattern, and no matter how advanced and complex you made these algorithms, that’s all they are - algorithms.

            AI is actually “learning”, as in it needs material to get good at something.

            Those are two completely different things. The only thing they have in common is that they are both ran on a computer.