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AI why? Where’s the proof that AI was involved in this?
by nalak 11mo ago
AI why? Where’s the proof that AI was involved in this?
- rabinovich 11mo ago"A popular tech YouTuber with over 350,000 subscribers has lost his channel after YouTube’s automated systems flagged him for an alleged connection to a completely unrelated Japanese channel that received copyright strikes."
- nalak 11mo agoAutomated systems existed much much before LLMs were widely deployed.
- prasadjoglekar 11mo agoEverything is AI now. Magic fairy dust.
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoAn algorithm that does a database lookup is more intelligent than an LLM.
- layer8 11mo agoAI doesn’t imply LLM.
- stronglikedan 11mo agoThe term "the algorithm" has been replaced by "the AI" in modern parlance, and doesn't refer to any specific AI architecture - just something that makes a decision without a human in the loop.
- echelon 11mo agoThat's not necessarily AI. That could be as simple as a database lookup against flagged accounts or a simple heuristic score. We're over-AI-ing everything.
- epolanski 11mo agoThis reminds me how all of my friends in the last years have replaced special effects/CGI term in movies/ads/shows with AI. I'm always confused because they've seen special effects for decades, and now the very same explosions, filters, etc, cgi is suddenly AI.
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoOr under AIing. It's automated. It's based on information. Why is it not intelligent. Why is it demonstrably less intelligent than an LLM which may make no attempt to retrieve information from other sources but merely has what it was created with.
- t-writescode 11mo agoWouldn’t a heuristic score be AI? It could very probably *not* be an LLM or Stable Diffusion or similar which has coopted the overall term “AI”; but that doesn’t make it not an expert system, or an SLM used for categorization, or even A* search, all of which fell under the umbrella of “AI” for a long time.
- echelon 11mo agoA heuristic can be a single if statement. Heuristics are just rules of thumb without necessarily having a rigid law or clean classification. You can derive heuristics from mathematically modeling something or even applying machine learning, but they need not necessarily involve either set of techniques.
- danaris 11mo agoI assure you, they still do. Artificial Intelligence is a thriving and active discipline of the Computer Science field. It includes things like A* search and expert systems even now, despite current popular parlance shoving LLMs into the spotlight as "AI" and implying that that's all the term means.
- sidewndr46 11mo agoHaving been told to implement this sort of thing at least once, it's not even heuristic. It was exactly things like "if firstName == 'Saddam' and lastName == 'Hussein' then lockAccount()". Keep in mind this was years after he was dead, for some reason the big list of prohibited persons the US circulates includes lots of dead people
- MortyAnvil 11mo agoBecause the current hype cycle of "AI" has subsumed the terms "Algorithm" or "Machine Learning" to classify automated decision making processes that rely on some level of modeling / applied statistics instead of deterministic code. I don't love the way language around this is evolving as it is mostly a marketing tool to make these tools seem much more than they are. Primarily this is driven by the current generative "AI" bubble