Google will always try too screw over consumers when they can make even a dime more off of a product. This is not a bug but a feature – for the company.

Consider degoogling. There are a lot of alternatives, albeit with some slight drawbacks. Everyone should consider for themselves whether these drawbacks are bad enough to stay with a company that treats you as the product, not as the customer.

Nahh they’re just looking for the break room

Who said anything about Microsoft working on them? But yes, Microsoft is probably also working on those…

And that is exactly the point. Don’t blanket bitch about AI when you only mean a tiny subset of AI, that happens to have become a fad.

Ok let’s say

Cars <-> cybertruck 

Same as:

AI <-> LLMs 

If Tesla makes a shitty car, does that make all other cars from other manufacturers that have come before it and will come after it also shitty? Why do you say: AI is shit when LLM’s and the like are shit, and not cars are shit when the Cybertruck is shit?

(Ok not a perfect example because Cybertrucks aren’t as popular, but you get the idea).

And there is not just a handful of good applications. They’re just not consumer models and are used in certain fields as I mentioned before. As a whole, the number of ML algorithms still vastly outnumber the LLM’s and the like. That may shift now everyone and their mother is making an “AI”. But for now, let’s stick to the facts.

This is the technology community after all…

Mate. You can argue with me all you want but you can’t change the definition, no matter how much you like to be right. Please look up a definition before you start arguing it and calling other people’s comment bullshit.

Your second paragraph is exactly my point. It’s not helpful to call LLM’s and solely LLM’s AI. Because they are not what it encompasses. And every time you use the term the wrong way you help erode it.

I can also assure you that outside tech bros and fad followers the term AI is still very much alive. And it is used just the way it was before LLMs.

So you can at least try to use the correct terms in a technology community and not blanket hate on AI that is still very helpful and very different from LLM’s, but still, very definitely AI according to the definition.

This comment is for you as well.

Yeah, that’s because that’s all that you’ve seen. Not because that’s all that there is. The tip of the iceberg for someone who doesn’t know what is beyond the surface.

LLM’s have everyone’s focus simply because they got so popular and are the only AI’s that regular consumers can use. There are a lot of advanced machine learning models helping out behind the scenes that all fall under the original umbrella term of AI. For example in science and in medicine (especially medical imaging).

Well yea, but we can all help by not making blanket statements about actual AI when we’re actually only discussing generative AI, agentic AI ::rolleyes:: or other nonsense toys

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That thing is nightmare material

“But the data extraction factory I work at wasn’t supposed to extract my data!”