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Yeah but what if china invents super duper intelligence what then??

[–] Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 5 points 16 hours ago

"Why no one should use Trumps term" duh...

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Well, for Trumps level of intelligence, a parrot with a dictionary must look like it's super intelligent.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Watch, next up the Pedo-in-Chief will state that AI (not calling it the stupid ass term dickless made up) needs to be considered people.

You know, like how businesses are considered people now. You see where this is going...

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I GOT SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION VOTES FROM STUPOR INTELLIGENCE!

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The agreements between OpenAI and Microsoft hinge on "super intelligence" specifically. In exchange for billions in early investment, OAI has to share it's model tech with MS until ASI is developed.

I wouldn't be surprised if all this is just a power play, with OAI bribing trump to get off the hook.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Look at it from Trump's perspective, though. Even a simple markov chain like eliza is super intelligence compared to what's going on in his brain...

(No, but seriously, this whole SI thing is really just a scam by his handlers to resell Slovenian domains at an inflated price.)

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Stolen intelligence”

Took everything from everyone without their permission and said “I made this!”

[–] stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wanna know the new term I made?

Stolen intelligence.

Pretty good, right?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now we both pay each other the same huge sum of money and tell everyone about all the revenue and investment we have done.

[–] stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey, I have an idea...

Reality really is more absurd than fiction.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump is an absolute moron. No one should listen to anything he says, other than his admissions of crimes committed.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And most especially of something of a technical matter. And no, his "genes" don't fucking matter, either, LOL. No one gives a flying fuck who his uncle was.

[–] deeprlyeh@lemmus.org 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s not even called AI. Im certainly not calling in SI.

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 33 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I refer to them as either “the LLM” or “the robot” at work and boy howdy the AI bros do not like it

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I call them chatbots or fancy autocomplete. LLM maybe for the better coding agents, but that’s still being generous. Slopbots for the music, website, and image generators.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

roided up eliza.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I refer to them as G.P. This is a somewhat inside joke for those who were in Ontario and watched Tales of the Riverbank on TVO (aka Hammy Hamster) in the 1960's and 70's. Hammy's friend G.P. was a guinea pig. They'd get up to all sorts of adventures. It wasn't a cartoon, but filming of real animals in sets with models and with voice dubbing, and a narrator. They obviously put food down where they wanted the animals to go, and I'm pretty sure they glued the paws to steering wheels and the like sometimes. There was also Martha Mouse, who was clearly a white rat. One time the animals ... oh, but that's another story. (That's how the episodes ended and it was fucking annoying).

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[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I was starting to think it should be called SI, but short for Simulated Intelligence. Its a good description of these tools, which look intelligent but are not truely intelligent.

Then Trump came out with his bullshit.

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I know this isn't the point of the article, but honestly we shouldn't be using the term "AI" either. By implying that ChatGPT et al are intelligent, even if that's not our intention, we feed into the hype. I found this article proposing alternative, more accurate terms: https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Probabilistic Automation is probably the best term for a majority of what the orange buffoon calls "super intelligence".

I hate that this went from "we want to detect cancer early" to "steal and monetize everything".

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

The tech bros have destroyed the believe everyone had about progress. These days not much people believe more inventions and technology will actually improve our lives.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Good stuff

artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation

hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence

image recognition → image labeling

speech recognition → automatic transcription

the model shows bias → the model reflects bias

model mistakes → model errors

chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …

hallucination → undesirable output

goal → success condition

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The first thing I broach on the topic is that there is no intelligence. It is a language model that uses an algorithm to determine speech and conversation. It is limited to whatever it has scraped from humanity and offers nothing further. Each different LLM has its own predilections and tendencies. Some better than others, but all of it is unintelligent and will confidently tell you a wrong answer. Furthermore, it devolves into hallucinations very quickly. What have I missed or what should I add?

Edit: Article correctly states LLMs should not be anthropomorphized and "hallucination" lends to that. But I feel "undesirable outputs" is too soft even though it does strip the humanity from the LLM.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's just marketingspeak from a moron who doesn't understand the tech, or it's capabilities.

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My understanding is that it's a willful scam to sell .si domains. Of course that doesn't mean he came up with it or that he isn't a moron who doesn't understand.

He doesn't have to be smart to own significant blocks of them. Somebody just has to whisper to him that there's a lot of money to be made.

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[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe we could call it "Stupid Intelligence"?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

If the LLM was a coworker, they'd be fired for incompetence.

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Freedom Fries moment

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 15 points 2 days ago

Why No One Should Use Trump's Term

Because it's what Trump wants and he made it up on a whim. The fact that people are even entertaining the idea enough to write articles about it is asinine.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Again: this is a loyalty test to see who all is loyal to Trump.

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And here I am still calling A1.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's insulting to steak sauce.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I mean, the steak sauce is insulting to steak. Pretty sure it's actually the perfect name.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago
[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

Because literally every time he says “actually you should call it [x]” it’s the dumbest thing said that day, only surpassed by other stupid shit he might say.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I saw a suggestion I'd like to second: just call it "Trump intelligence"

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Please no. LLMs can usually string together coherent sentences and have a much tighter grasp of reality

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Call it special intelligence and imply it is mentally deficient.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago

It would seem like "super intelligence" when you're as mentally incapacitated as Trump or MAGA. So would a stale quiche, but I digress.

[–] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 0 points 1 day ago

Because it's both cringe and inferior to the actually correct and already popularized term, Virtual Intelligence.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 4 points 2 days ago

His little robot worshippers will.

[–] kaotic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

During his announcement about this the phrase “Artificial makes it sound fake.” I’m sitting at home thinking “thats because it is fake!”

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I swear this fucking buffoon should have just been an explorer or something with how much he just loves naming shit

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Most explorers named things that already had names, too.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yes. Now we need people with more money and more of a platform to say this.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Cnet is now classified as a terrorist organization

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

AI is no intelligence None what so ever. You don't really belive these agents that are doing all this 'hacking' are doing it without human input? Do you? If you do I got a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

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