Any tool can be a hammer if you use it wrong enough.

A good hammer is designed to be a hammer and only used like a hammer.

If you have a fancy new hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  • @0laura
    link
    111 month ago

    you not liking it doesn’t make it any less ai. I don’t remember that many people complaining when we called the code controlling video game characters ai.

    • Carighan Maconar
      link
      41 month ago

      Or called our mobile phones “cell phones”, despite not being organic. Tsk.

      • macniel
        link
        fedilink
        11 month ago

        Except cell phones or cellular phones refer to the structure a mobile network is built on: a mesh of cell towers.

    • macniel
      link
      fedilink
      11 month ago

      pretty sure that they were and still are called Bots though, atleast in the context of first person shooter.

        • macniel
          link
          fedilink
          0
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          next thing you gonna say that boids are AI too…

          just because Mojang decided to name that flag noAI doesn’t mean it uses AI to govern its behavior.

          • @0laura
            link
            11 month ago

            Descriptivism advocates when AI smhingmyheads

    • @Jomega
      link
      01 month ago

      deleted by creator

        • @Jomega
          link
          21 month ago

          I have no idea what you just said.

          • @0laura
            link
            11 month ago

            I showed you proof that AI is sometimes used to mean artificial intelligence when describing code that controls video game enemies.

            • @Jomega
              link
              -11 month ago

              deleted by creator

              • @0laura
                link
                1
                edit-2
                1 month ago

                In video games, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to generate responsive, adaptive or intelligent behaviors primarily in non-playable characters (NPCs) similar to human-like intelligence. Artificial intelligence has been an integral part of video games since their inception in the 1950s

                literally wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_video_games

                • macniel
                  link
                  fedilink
                  0
                  edit-2
                  1 month ago

                  AI in video games is a distinct subfield and differs from academic AI. It serves to improve the game-player experience rather than machine learning or decision making. During the golden age of arcade video games the idea of AI opponents was largely popularized in the form of graduated difficulty levels, distinct movement patterns, and in-game events dependent on the player’s input.

                  In general, game AI does not, as might be thought and sometimes is depicted to be the case, mean a realization of an artificial person corresponding to an NPC in the manner of the Turing test or an artificial general intelligence.

                  Look further down to see what currently understood AI, aka generative AI, is used for in video games

                  • @0laura
                    link
                    11 month ago

                    I don’t really see your argument? it seems that you agree with me. ai doesn’t always refer to AGI. sometimes it refers to AGI, sometimes it refers to the code controlling the little ghosts in pacman, or the code controlling the bats in Minecraft. sometimes it refers to the machine learning algorithm that can detect numbers in an image, and sometimes it refers to generative AI like stable diffusion. my point is that ai is a very broad term that refers to many different things.

    • @kescusay
      link
      -2
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      Software developer, here.

      It’s not actually AI. A large language model is essentially autocomplete on steroids. Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neural network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

      I’m not trying to diss LLMs, by the way. Like I said, they can be very useful in some contexts. I use Copilot to assist with coding, for example. Don’t want to write a bunch of boilerplate code? Copilot is excellent for speeding that process up.

      • @celliern
        link
        71 month ago

        LLMs are part of AI, which is a fairly large research domain of math/info, including machine learning among other. God, even linear regression can be classified as AI : that term is reeeally large

        • @kescusay
          link
          English
          -11 month ago

          I mean, I guess the way people use the term “AI” these days, sure, but we’re really beating all specificity out of the term.

          • @celliern
            link
            21 month ago

            This is a domain research domain that contain statistic methods and knowledge modeling among other. That’s not new, but the fact that this is marketed like that everywhere is new

            AI is really not a specific term. You may refer as global AI, and I suspect that’s what you refer to when you say AI?

          • @0laura
            link
            11 month ago

            it’s always been this broad, and that’s a good thing. if you want to talk about AGI then say AGI.

      • @0laura
        link
        21 month ago

        I know that they’re “autocorrect on steroids” and what that means, I don’t see how that makes it any less ai. I’m not saying that LLMs have that magic sauce that is needed to be considered truly “intelligent”, I’m saying that ai doesn’t need any magic sauce to be ai. the code controlling bats in Minecraft is called ai, and no one complained about that.

      • Zos_Kia
        link
        fedilink
        01 month ago

        Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neural network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

        But that’s true of all (most ?) neural networks ? Are you saying Neural Networks are not AI and that they can’t learn ?

        NNs don’t retrain while they are being used, they are trained once then they cannot learn new behaviour or correct existing behaviour. If you want to make them better you need to run them a bunch of times, collect and annotate good/bad runs, then re-train them from scratch (or fine-tune them) with this new data. Just like LLMs because LLMs are neural networks.