As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are people who genuinelly think there’s actual artificial intelligent thinking behind something like ChatGPT.

    Reminds me of my grandmother - a poor illiterate peasant woman - when she came to live with us in the big city and who got really confused when the same actor appeared in multiple soap operas on TV. She saw the “living truthfully in imaginary circunstances” of good actors (or, lets be honest, the make-believe of most soap opera actors) and because of here complete ignorance on the subject confused acting with real life.

    I think there’s a lot of this going on and, hopefully, like with my grandmother most such people will eventually understand that the well done lifelike surface-level impression does not guarantee that what is behind it is a matching reality (people really living that life in the soap opera or an actual intelligence in this).

    • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The word AI has at least 3 different meanings. People who understand the subject usually just mean machine learning. But there is also AI we see in movies (which is usually a sentient computer) and AI in games (which is just programmed NPCs). I think most people confuse the stuff they see in movies with machine learning.

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        1 year ago

        I think marketing execs are COUNTING on that misinterpretation to make the product seem like more than it is.

        • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          That’s possible. It’s still a useful technology that already has interesting uses today. But I wish people understood technology better, so that they could make better decisions.