China is building a different type of AI (asiatimes.com)

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty sure the article itself is generated. This sort of refusal to commit to saying anything concrete is a hallmark of AI generated articles. The closest it comes to saying how AI is being used differently and it hedges with an "imagine this" sort of statement without references:

Now imagine AI in a different role. Instead of answering questions, it adjusts traffic lights as congestion builds. It balances electricity across a grid as demand shifts. It predicts equipment failures before they occur, reroutes freight around disruptions or continuously updates a digital model of an entire city as millions of people move through it.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Imagine A.I. deciding to fuck your commute home because you and 2 other cars are turning but there's 20,000 cars going straight so it trolley problems your ass into traffic purgatory

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Even if it was a good idea to optimize traffic based on live data, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for AI to be in the loop as opposed to just a normal algorithm, because the problem isn't that dynamic. Maybe unless it's so individual decisions are a black box and no one can be held accountable for them. Anyway, again, I think this example is just something the LLM thought sounded plausible and isn't based on anything real.

[-] SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

Even if it was a good idea to optimize traffic based on live data

Have you ever used Google Maps? That future is already here.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

I guess using a non-internet connected gps device puts me somewhat out of the loop here but yeah you're right

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 0 points 4 days ago

I've noticed LLMs are really good at finding use cases for themselves everywhere, even if it's a bit of a stretch

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