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i think it's part marketing hype to convince people it's cooler than it is, and that ai companies are not stealing your work by training models on it. ai doesn'

i think it's part marketing hype to convince people it's cooler than it is, and that ai companies are not stealing your work by training models on it. ai doesn't generate content, all models learned by gradient descent are kernel machines. it's just a black box version of a function that approximates points in the training set. if they convince people ai is close to sentient and creative, it seems less like copyright infringement

nerdponx 3y ago
The term "neural network" has been in widespread use for decades now, And the debate over the terminology has gone on for almost as long. The "neuron" analogy is certainly convenient for marketing field with the general public, but it's not some new conspiracy.