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Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated::undefined

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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

It absolutely is AI. A lot of stuff is AI.

It's just not that useful.

[-] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The decision tree my company uses to deny customer claims is not AI despite the business constantly referring to it as such.

There's definitely a ton of "AI" that is nothing more than an If/Else statement.

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

for many years AI referred to that type of technology. It is not infact AGI but AI historically in the technical field refers more towards decision trees, and classification/ linear regression models.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

That's called an expert system, and has been commonly called a form of AI for decades.

That is indeed what most of it is, my company was doing "sentiment analysis" and it was literally just checking it against a good and bad word list

When someone corporate says "AI" you should hear "extremely rudimentary machine learning" until given more details

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 24 points 2 years ago

It's useful at sucking down all the compute we complained crypto used

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's funny how that little tidbit just went quietly into the bin not to talked about again.

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The main difference is that crypto was/is burning huge amounts of energy to run a distributed ponzi scheme. LLMs are at least using energy to create a useful tool (even if there is discussion over how useful they are).

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I argue AI is much easier to pull a profit from than a currency exchange also ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

There are significant differences between statistical models and AI.

I work for an analytics department at a fortune 100 company. We have a very clear delineation between what constitutes a model and what constitutes an AI.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, an AI is a model you can't explain.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Optimizing compilers came directly out of AI research. The entirety of modern computing is built on things the field produced.

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