• _bcron_@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I’m not even understanding what AI is at this point because there’s no delineation between moderately sophisticated algorithms and things that are orders of magnitude more complex.

    I mean, if something like multisampling came out today we’d all know how it’d be marketed

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      AI is a ridiculous broad term these days. Everybody had been slapping the label on anything. It’s kinda like saying “transportation” and it means anything between babies crawling up to wrap drive and teleportation.

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      11 days ago

      Technically speaking how I differentiate it is:

      • clever algorithm is a good heuristic
      • statistics on steroids is machine learning
      • using a transformer model is AI (for now)
    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      The AI buzzword means machine learning. You give it a massive dataset and it identifies correlations.

      Regular hand-coded AI is mostly simple state machines.