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Originally Posted by Renate
Just in the last year significant strides have been made and it will only get worse better?
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Most of the actual significant advances were made 40+ years ago. What the media and tech bros call "AI" today is... okay, brief overview:
Neural networks are software simulations of how living brain cells work. Neural networks are really good at building collections of patterns and identifying aberrations in those patterns. Credit card companies went all in with "AI" in the 1980s because when software can easily detect aberrations aka fraud? That saves a lot of money. Many of the most significant advances in machine learning came out of those neural networks.
When you feed images instead of credit card transactions to a neural network you get image recognition software.
When you feed words -- books, magazines, web scraping, etc., -- to an image recognition system you get a large language model or LLM.
And when you run an LLM in reverse you get what the tech bros call "generative AI".
It's not generative and it's not AI, and it's definitely not new. It's 40 year old tech run in reverse.