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Opening image: AI-generated picture of a slightly melting computer, with keys that can only type words like "kgonfutz" or "oøoøøo". I can only assume the rest
by egypturnash 2y ago
Opening image: AI-generated picture of a slightly melting computer, with keys that can only type words like "kgonfutz" or "oøoøøo".
I can only assume the rest of the article is also AI-generated, with a similar attention to detail. Tab closed without reading.
- rhet0rica 2y agoWell, dear Peggy, the program in question is, in fact, known to have existed in 1974 on Multics (https://multicians.org/terminals.html https://multicians.org/terminals.html), so you're not half wrong. The other major issue is that it isn't machine learning—it's a classic example of an expert system, even if there is a bit of a gray area around whether a binary decision tree qualifies as ML. The worst part, of course, is that it takes less time to slap "GUESS THE ANIMAL" on a stock image of a glass terminal than it does to prompt a diffusion model to generate the same thing with passable fidelity... and it still wouldn't be an accurate depiction of what the program actually did.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoIt's not a grey area! A decision tree does what we call today "inference". A decision tree learner is the one that does the learning and that hasn't changed since the '80s. Er. To my understanding of course.
- blahyawnblah 2y agoIt can be difficult to find hero images for articles like this, so people generate them. Why is that bad to you?
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- FarmerPotato 2y agoI cried "LLM garbage" too. Catchy title, article full of bizarre errors and repetition. It would be a prank--LLM writing about AI, badly. But the Medium account behind it has only articles like this.