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people who called anything stats/machine learning related "AI"

an unfortunate trend in environmental science. immediate tell someone has no idea what they're talking about. logistic regression is not ai. regression trees are not ai. shut up shut up shut up shut up

@schmichael

19h ago

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God this couldn’t be further from my area and it infuriates me so I couldn’t even imagine what it’s like for somebody who works in the neighbourhood of it

2h ago

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marketing gimmick

10 years ago you had to call computational statistics "machine learning" to trick VCs without any technical knowledge to fund you. now you have to call it "AI". both are complete misnomers. can computational statistics be used for evil? yes (mass surveillance, deep fakes, etc.) can it be used for good? yes (improved weather forecasting, earlier disease diagnostics, etc.) on the whole do economic incentives all-but-guarantee it will be used for evil more than good? yes. does any of this have anything to do with cognition/intelligence/sentience/etc? not even a little

@schmichael

Feb 12, 2024

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Anti-rec: ai hype

yeah cool like ai wow. but also we are in a climate crisis and the amount of data and processing required to keep llm’s running, and consequently the carbon emissions produced, is diabolical and wholly unethical.

@theeyah

Jun 20, 2024

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Hating on ai

Sometimes I recommend being a hater. I’m not here to talk about the numerous quality uses of AI, how often it is actually used nor am I here to critique AI without strawmanning it. I don’t care if I strawman an account of AI because I genuinely despise the way most people use AI. I think AI generated images are ugly. I think that AI cannot hold a half decent conversation. I’m completely avoidant when it comes to showing AI my writing; I’ve never done it and I refuse to. I hate when you go to that one poetry website and there is AI “analysis” there, because its not real textual analysis and it upholds a certain contextualised intentionalist framework of reading a text reinforced in high school English. I hate that the meta AI will influence what products will be advertised to you. I don’t care if it’s the future. I genuinely love being called a dinosaur because I hate AI.