I’d say it’s more like a way to describe a certain kind of algorithm. One that adapts in some way to inputs that defy simple classification. Ultimately you’re probably just safe to replace AI in modern news and internet discussion with LLM or CNN.

Like most things, meaning depends on context. In the most common context of “news about AI” we’re talking about generative AI: image/video generators, LLMs, and to a lesser degree coding assistants. If you want to know more about what these technologies share in common, look up what a “perceptron” is and how it works.

More generally AI could mean anything from a neural network based approach to problem solving, to a completely deterministic, hand coded heuristic. A pure decision tree could be AI in the case of video game NPCs, for example.

if they're still around when the financial shell game they're playing finally comes to a stop. who am i kidding the government will bail them out.

what if we cannibalize our long-term viability for a short-term gain says every dipshit in charge of tech hardware manufacturing.

"()()" is an ambigram, which wikipedia describes as "visual palindromes", for whatever that's worth.

Targeting the hospitals was a deliberate tactic to make this kind of information harder to reliably gather and disseminate.

Previous record holder. source

the comic is about using a machine learning algorithm instead of a hand-coded algorithm. not about using chatGPT to write a trivial program that no doubt exists a thousand times in the data it was trained on.

Not just space, bandwidth.

It’s just a robots.txt flag that explicitly mentions a google user agent string. This is about as effective at stopping AI from training on your data as a “no trespassing” sign hidden behind the hedges of your unfenced lawn is at stopping trespassers.

I’d like to see more substantial consequences for consciously and deliberately sabotaging a war operation using a service the pentagon paid him to provide.

We already had a nationalized SpaceX. We defunded it and gave grants to private companies like uh… SpaceX.