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This article uses the term AI 5 times to talk about basic microcontroller sensor readings.
by SchemaLoad 1y ago
This article uses the term AI 5 times to talk about basic microcontroller sensor readings.
- boodleboodle 1y agoThat my friend is the Korean Way (^tm). If they don’t meet the minimum AI namedrop quota, Seocho Samsung HQ rejects the proposal.
- bgnn 1y agoWe used to call any sensor with a digital output a smart sensor, although there was nothing smart about it. Now that smart became AI.
- cactusfrog 1y agoMy process control theory textbook has a chapter on neural networks and a lot of the language in control theory has an AI like tinge to it. I think this AI language is native to control theory so it might not be as overblown as it first sounds.
- Onavo 1y agoI mean yes, that's what reinforcement learning is.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoI always thought my software PID controller with 512kb main memory is quite smart. Pure AI in my opinion.
- eru 1y agoThat's quite a lot of memory for a little PID controller, isn't it? But I guess these days, they already only cost pennies, so you wouldn't save much from going for even less memory?
- raxxorraxor 1y agoIt is a serious PID controller using an intelligent AI ringbuffer. But yeah, 512kb was probably vastly exaggerated... 512 bytes is probably enough :)
- fourthark 1y agoA thermostat is a cybernetic device.
- Hackbraten 1y agoSo we need both AI and Kubernetes.
- romantomjak 1y agoIndependently scale and deploy fridges at edge. Fridge@Edge ™
- moffkalast 1y agoSuck it, Jian Yang
- Incipient 1y agoEdge devices are problematic. I want to outsource the risk and decrease capex (and just hope opex works out). CloudFridge.
- throwaway915 1y agoCloud involves losing sovereignty of data. And rabbits. Local Automated Refrigeration Devices Eat Rabbits. LARDER.
- anakaine 1y agoWe're going to need decrease load and off-shift the munchies so the fridge doesnt crash. Can we use a CDN? Comestible distribution network.
- JTbane 1y agosorry, us-west-1 went down for 6 hours and my milk spoiled
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- amelius 1y agoHuh, control theorists always try to rigorously prove the stability and performance of their algorithms. AI seems to be the opposite of that: just let the black box solve it and don't worry about any problems, we'll just add more training data if they happen!
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoYes! Let's spend 100x the resources on AI to do what a PID controller or Kalman filter can do.
- ethbr1 1y agoI’m less scared about 100x the resources (in most applications) in exchange for decreasing programmer time / need. What worries me far more is the lack of formalism around risk / boundary cases by undertrained teams using modern AI solutions. Anyone building on top of a thing should either understand (a) how it’s built in detail or (b) its specifications and behavior in detail. Most of these teams understand neither about LLMs.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago>Most of these teams understand neither about LLMs. That's where my 100x comes from, not from the dev effort but from the debugging of issues of an unknown black box.
- jameshart 1y agoIf you type ‘fuzzy logic’ in to google the autocomplete suggested search is ‘fuzzy logic rice cooker’. Control theory has been stealing ML terminology for a long time.
- ethbr1 1y ago:D Rice cooker marketing is weirdly synchronized on that. Speaking of, what does it actually mean? That the cooker isn’t using a timer? Do most of them run off weight + time + heat response logic?
- bee_rider 1y agoI firmly believe control theory folks didn’t invent LLMs only because the idea of doing a big fit on everything sounds too much like a joke they were telling each other.
- Quitschquat 1y agoI kinda of gave up after the second mention.
- looofooo0 1y ago"We used copilot to hack the code together."
- avhception 1y agoMy parent's new fridge has the word AI printed on at least 5 of the stickers that were plastered all over the thing.
- qart 1y agoJust a few years ago, the buzzwords were "germicidal", "immunity boosting", "anti-bacterial", etc. for every damn thing, especially in India, where marketing can get away with bizarre claims.
- GuB-42 1y agoIs there anything that is proved to be "immunity boosting" apart from vaccines? Well, and germs of course. Germs will cause an immune response, but that's probably not the kind of "boost" you are interested in. As for AI, I guess it is sufficiently vague and also not a medical claim, so you can put it everywhere. But because it is just as vague for consumers, is it even worth something for marketing?
- colechristensen 1y agoDepends on your definition of "boosting". Vitamin C is essential for plenty of immune functions and a deficiency has serious effects on immunity. Enormous doses of Vitamin C have been shown to be effective in various scenarios as well. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8239596/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8239596/
- bluGill 1y agoWhile not wrong, that is very misleading - for the vast majority we already get plenty of vitamin C in our diet and we don't have the specific situations where enormous doses will be effective. At least vitamin C is water soluble: your body will almost always just pee out any extra quick so it is very hard to overdose. Those who have a kidney problem should check with a doctor, for the rest of us massive doses just make our pee more expensive.
- colechristensen 1y ago>for the vast majority we already get plenty of vitamin C This is highly dependent on the population you're talking about. There are plenty of people around the world who don't have great nutrition and don't eat large amounts of fortified industrial food. >for the rest of us massive doses just make our pee more expensive The study I linked reported ridiculous doses of vitamin C "dramatically improved the clinical state and cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic and renal function" in ICU spesis patients. Like 200-400 grams of sodium ascorbate administered over 7 hours. The recommended daily nutritional consumption of vitamin C is around 80 milligrams. There are other studies reporting other positive outcomes for large doses of vitamin C. This isn't a recommendation that you should take hundreds of grams every day yourself, but there is ample evidence in a clinical setting for "immune boosting" vitamin C in large doses. (and also criticisms of the daily value for being too low)
- veunes 1y ago"AI" has become the seasoning you sprinkle on anything to make it sound futuristic
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoI wonder if there's a site that keeps track of these. It was crypto before, then ML, for a while a lot of job openings seasoned their text with IoT, etc.
- yehoshuapw 1y agoso long as it isn't about ai based crypto running on IoT, not interested
- keysdev 1y agoIt is the cheese abd soy sauce of computer science now days
- prmoustache 1y agoAI is to software services what avocado is in the food industry.
- thesz 1y ago"AI" has become the seasoning you sprinkle on anything to make it sound contemporary.
- vasco 1y agoBut zero web 2.0 references so we can rejoice.
- maeln 1y agoNah the new buzz was the Web 3, Web 2.0 is sooo 2010
- colechristensen 1y agoWeb 3 was blockchain nonsense "everywhere" and the buzz has died because the only people who want blockchains are speculators, money launderers, and niche boring users like nightly settlement of inter-bank accounts.
- razakel 1y ago"Sorry, your subscription has expired and now all your food is mouldy. If you have any complaints, call 1-800-FUCK-YOU and we'll just laugh at you."
- ggus 1y agoEven worse: If you have any complaints, call a number we won't publish anywhere on our site and a robotic voice will just laugh at you.
- zettabomb 1y agoSo I'm not defending the use of the term AI in this context, however in this case it's part of the product name (for the most part, there's only a few other references). Does the product use anything that would be regarded as properly AI? No idea, but marketing definitely is going to want you to use the Full Product Name(TM) whenever possible.
- throwawayoldie 1y ago> marketing definitely is going to want you to use the Full Product Name(TM) whenever possible Counterpoint: fuck marketing.
- Seb-C 1y agoI purchased a book the other day, and when I turn the pages, it automatically shows me the text that I want to read. It must be powered by AI.
- oneshtein 1y agoIt looks like joke today, but it's not a joke anymore. Book can look at your search history youtube history, or reading history to have insight about your points of interest to create list of topics you like, then generate pages on the fly using LLM.
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoI imagine theres going to be an entire new class of intelligent humans powered by LLMs that learn this way, and they are going to be at such a disadvantage to the people that do it the old fashioned way and dont take shortcuts. The vast majority of humans are going to offload all their critical think skills to LLMs. I dont want to be friends with those people. I want to start a blog about these people called "Artifically Intelligent"
- artursapek 1y agoThey exist already, and are the people who watch a lot of cable TV. They are called NPCs
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoYeah but I believe the internet rescued a lot of people from that existence, but the people running the internet now are actively working against that.
- SecretDreams 1y ago> I dont want to be friends with those people. That really limits the friendship selection pool :(.
- SecretDreams 1y agoHow else would we know they used AI???