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New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human (www.shreveporttimes.com)
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[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is exhausting y'all. God I fucking hate LLMs so much. This tech could be such a exciting break through, a step towards real artificial intelligence, but stuck in academia where it belongs. Instead of getting to be excited and interested this inanimate compilation of matrices is breathing down my neck constantly.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

This tech could be such a exciting break through, a step towards real artificial intelligence

No, not really lol.

The best analogy for this that I've heard is that it's like saying elevators are a step towards teleporters. Calling it "intelligence" is a marketing coup. It is not intelligence, artificial or otherwise.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Have you seen the first elevators? Or even used a chat bot prior to this? The definition of "AI" for a long time was just "decision trees" or some really neat classification systems. This is different. The hype and terrible business practices is the problem not the idea itself.

I also agree that calling it Artificial intelligence is a marking scheme, it's a loaded term machine learning is better. This has always kinda been a problem. Technically it's very loosely defined. I always refer to it as LLMs

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 17 hours ago

But what is intelligence?

-every idiot who can't tell the difference when they talk to a clanker