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I Don't Like "AI"

Why I Don't Like “AI” Since circumstances in my life require that I spend way more time than I want thinking about AI, I figure at least I can maybe get a blog post out of it. It’s Not “AI” Okay, so first off: I don’t even like to refer to the recent in-vogue text and image generation tools as “AI.” I think it’s a poorly-defined term that is used more to evoke associations in people’s brains than to be an accurate representation of the technology we have in front of us.

Okay, so first off: I don’t even like to refer to the recent in-vogue text and image generation tools as “AI.” I think it’s a poorly-defined term that is used more to evoke associations in people’s brains than to be an accurate representation of the technology we have in front of us. …an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot. But so because what we call a “free” country is actually largely controlled by the whims of people like Marc Andreessen, it’s apparently become mandatory for every company on earth to cram some “AI” functionality that no one asked for into their already rapidly-enshittifying product, in order to…?

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