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I don't know the technical details behind this software. But I strongly suspect this is firmly in the camp of "machine learning" rather than "AI." Big Tech's in
by nicklecompte 3y ago
I don't know the technical details behind this software. But I strongly suspect this is firmly in the camp of "machine learning" rather than "AI." Big Tech's intentional confusion between those terms has caused an enormous amount of mischief over the last 10 years.
If the military had said "statistical inference using modern Big Data methods" that would have the following advantages:
- honesty
- officers' expectations would be more tempered and reasonable
- public outrage would be more tempered and reasonable
Though to be fair this terminology would have the following disadvantages:
- military tech grifters have their BS more easily called out
- AI tech grifters have to look in the mirror and accept this is what their algorithm is
- AI journalism grifters get less clicks
- Hacker News conversations indulge less navel-gazing speculation about Skynet
- lesuorac 3y agoA thermostat would count as an AI to somebody from the 1800s. My general experience is that AI is just beyond what somebody understands and when they understand how it works they just use a more specific wording.
- whelp_24 3y agoMachine Learning is a type of ai. >If the military had said "statistical inference using modern Big Data methods" If this is what I saw the military use I would be upset at the blatant attempt at being misleading. In my mind I would convert it back to AI. It's equivalent to saying "I didn't drive drunk, I got here using carnot-like cycles after injesting social communication enhancing drugs".