• Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
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    Hello everyone did you need someone in here being a complete pedant? Here I am!

    I would spell this slopperator, not sloperator. Putting only one consonant between O and E makes this read “SLOPE-r-ator”, like the slope of a hill. Also, there’s precedent, if you have a lot of slop, maybe you’re sloppy (two p’s).

    Sloperator sounds like someone who really likes linear regression.

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    My friend came up with “promptologist,” which goes well with all the AI butthole logos

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    I’m an artist, but I lived with three engineers in college and once had to go to a night class and take notes for one of them because I lost a bet. That one note-taking session gave me a huge appreciation for what engineers do.

    Calling LLM querying bullshit “engineering” is monumentally stupid.

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    Honestly I add AI related shit to my cv, we’ve no choice when it comes to corporation hell. If you’re a programmer it’s nearly impossible to avoid AI, I add “prompts, MCP, fine-tuning and GUFF”, but not “prompt engineer”.

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      I’m currently mentally (and physically) handicapped. I really hope a cure is found so that I can answer the question “Did you use AI for coding?” with “Yes, when I was mentally handicapped.”

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    It’s not AI, it’s neural network simulation, nothing fancy, just chain of ponderated nods

    So from now AI → NS

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        Maybe accepted but still inaccurate, it’s a simulation, not a proper artificial network, which, by definition, would be a proper “hardware”.
        And for the “artificial” term, I don’t know, everything humanity does is artificial, so it’s a bit superfluous.

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          Not sure these definitions are any better. Why is hardware proper by definition? And where is the software delineation? Would an fpga be hardware or software? How would this differ from our own neurons in that how they fire versus what they do is ill defined? I think trying to pin down where computational work is done biologically is a bit of a pointless exercise right now. Similarly trying to pin out definitions we use in computer science to match those ill understood biological constraints is also premature general ai using non biological computation may end up being vastly different from biology.

          And traditionally we just call things a neural network artificial is implied give we are running on a digital computer.

          Also the statement everything humanity does being artificial is needlessly broad. I don’t think you could argue reproduction of humans is artificial.