Artificial Intelligence

[dingbat]

Garbage in, Garbage out....it's worth exactly worth you paid for it...lol

 

[Chris1956]

AI is an attempt to help computers appear to think. A simple example is matching parts of an object to the object itself. Humans are good at that, but computers are real bad at that.

For example, if I showed the average human 50 pictures of parts of a dog, such as a tail, a snout, an ear etc, even a child can identify it as a dog. A non-AI computer would not know what it is, as they need to match the pictures to a whole dog to ID it. If the computer just happened to have the exact picture of the dog part stored and labeled as a dog, it could ID it. That is the basis of AI.

What the data centers do is take small pieces of data, say a dog's ear and label it as a dog, and ask the computer to match it to the picture. They need to do this with each and every piece of data, hence the huge amount of processing and storage requirements.

nOf course, if they mislabel, or misidentify the data, mistakes are them made in identifying the item.

 

[nola mike]

AI is an attempt to help computers appear to think. A simple example is matching parts of an object to the object itself. Humans are good at that, but computers are real bad at that.

For example, if I showed the average human 50 pictures of parts of a dog, such as a tail, a snout, an ear etc, even a child can identify it as a dog. A non-AI computer would not know what it is, as they need to match the pictures to a whole dog to ID it. If the computer just happened to have the exact picture of the dog part stored and labeled as a dog, it could ID it. That is the basis of AI.

What the data centers do is take small pieces of data, say a dog's ear and label it as a dog, and ask the computer to match it to the picture. They need to do this with each and every piece of data, hence the huge amount of processing and storage requirements.

nOf course, if they mislabel, or misidentify the data, mistakes are them made in identifying the item.

Great explanation

 

[BWR1953]

AI is in the infant stages of development. It'll eventually take over, but that's another subject.

The first automobiles weren't much compared to today's road blasters, capable of going 200+ mph. Yes, a steam powered version set a land speed record of 120mph, but it wasn't meant to haul people across country.

So, I don't expect current AI to perform the same as a fully developed system decades from now. But, I use it all the time and it's been a great tool for me even in these early days. Just a couple days ago I had to summarize a daily health log from the last 3 months into a small table which only included the pertinent data. I explained to the AI what I needed and dumped it into the window. In seconds it came up with a table which was winnowed down and included only the data I needed, which I promptly forwarded to my doc. Doing that same work myself would have taken hours as I pored over hundreds of entries.

AI is a useful tool even, but it's not a replacement for a human. Yet!

 

[Scott Danforth]

AI...... It'll eventually take over

In August 29th, skynet became self-aware

 

[nola mike]

In August 29th, skynet became self-aware

You need new material. See post #33

 

[BWR1953]

And on August 29th skynet became self-aware

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[Scott Danforth]

https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/2029

 

[Scott Danforth]

Cory Doctorow was correct with AI and the degradation of the search engine or usefulness of any search engine. Especially now with AI crap

I remember the days prior to the capitalization of search engines by turning them into paid advertising platforms

 

[nola mike]

Cory Doctorow was correct with AI and the degradation of the search engine or usefulness of any search engine. Especially now with AI crap

I remember the days prior to the capitalization of search engines by turning them into paid advertising platforms

My wife on our first date told me she knew that I was in school and knew what type of car I drove because she looked me up on Google (before it was a verb). I said "WTF is Google?" "It's a search engine, you know like askjeeves or Altavista"

 

[Scott Danforth]

I have used search engines for decades looking for unique products, etc.

20 years ago, used boolean logic to find what was needed. About 12 years ago, the boolean search went away

over the past 10 years it has been an ad platform only showing "sponsored" content.

Over the past 8 months, search engines have gone to AI and their usefulness has gone to that of a turd-flavored lollipop

 

[nola mike]

I have used search engines for decades looking for unique products, etc.

20 years ago, used boolean logic to find what was needed. About 12 years ago, the boolean search went away

over the past 10 years it has been an ad platform only showing "sponsored" content.

Over the past 8 months, search engines have gone to AI and their usefulness has gone to that of a turd-flavored lollipop

Interesting. I thought Google still accepted it in some form (quotes, +, -, etc). Gotta be some engine where that's possible. I know that Facebook makes it freaking impossible (actually, it is possible if you manually modify the URL)

 

[Scott Danforth]

Try it on Google. Boolean search hasn't worked on Google for years

 

[nola mike]

Try it on Google. Boolean search hasn't worked on Google for years

I just tried -"scott danforth" hot rod and +"scott danforth" hot rod and got very different results