Anyone use TikTok (BookTok) to market an ebook? - Page 2

Quoth · 01-29-2023, 05:31 AM

Chess programs had beaten ordinary human opponents much earlier.
Neither computer Chess nor computer Go uses AI. It's brute force. Also a computer Neural Network is a marketing term. It's a kind of data-flow database fed with content curated by humans. Neither system can be taught an unrelated game, like a 5 yo could teach a 3 yo.

ChatGBT is just another deterministic engine like Eliza, Parry, or ALICE, but with a separate big database (scraped from the Internet and curated by humans) rather than the data coded into the rules. It's also, like Watson winning Jeopardy, getting a lot of media hype. The Watson medical system only shared branding with the Watson that won Jeopardy and was a failure. There is basic problem with so called AI diagnostic systems apart from the fact they don't match media hype. They depend on a human curated database of diagnostic results by human experts. But diseases change over time. In the unlikely event such computer diagnostics would be a success, in a generation there would be no human experts to update them and eventually such computer systems would become useless.
See also issues with auto-pilots and degraded reaction of human that has to take over in an emergency on an aircraft.

Pierre Lawrence · 01-29-2023, 07:05 AM

As you point out, I should have said "world champion" (i.e., Kasparov) rather than "human opponent."

gmw · 01-29-2023, 06:18 PM

While I share many of Quoth's technical reservations about AI current systems, I think it's a mistake to be too dismissive. It's an evolution and it will get better. Plus the objective is not necessarily to replace human intelligence but to complement and supplement it.

My biggest reservation is a mostly philosophical one regarding self-learning AIs used in any sort of social context ... but that's a whole new discussion.

Pierre Lawrence · 02-19-2023, 03:16 AM

Here's a link to another article on BookTok, from a feminist perspective. If you can get by one of the more gratuitous, contorted uses of the f-word occurring shortly into the piece, the rest of it might be of interest.

https://lithub.com/booktok-is-good-a...ly_master_list

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01-29-2023, 05:31 AM	#16
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,171 Karma: 85874891 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	Chess programs had beaten ordinary human opponents much earlier. Neither computer Chess nor computer Go uses AI. It's brute force. Also a computer Neural Network is a marketing term. It's a kind of data-flow database fed with content curated by humans. Neither system can be taught an unrelated game, like a 5 yo could teach a 3 yo. ChatGBT is just another deterministic engine like Eliza, Parry, or ALICE, but with a separate big database (scraped from the Internet and curated by humans) rather than the data coded into the rules. It's also, like Watson winning Jeopardy, getting a lot of media hype. The Watson medical system only shared branding with the Watson that won Jeopardy and was a failure. There is basic problem with so called AI diagnostic systems apart from the fact they don't match media hype. They depend on a human curated database of diagnostic results by human experts. But diseases change over time. In the unlikely event such computer diagnostics would be a success, in a generation there would be no human experts to update them and eventually such computer systems would become useless. See also issues with auto-pilots and degraded reaction of human that has to take over in an emergency on an aircraft.

01-29-2023, 07:05 AM	#17
Pierre Lawrence Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 2600000 Join Date: Sep 2018 Location: New Jersey Device: kindle, nook	As you point out, I should have said "world champion" (i.e., Kasparov) rather than "human opponent."

01-29-2023, 06:18 PM	#18
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,809 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	While I share many of Quoth's technical reservations about AI current systems, I think it's a mistake to be too dismissive. It's an evolution and it will get better. Plus the objective is not necessarily to replace human intelligence but to complement and supplement it. My biggest reservation is a mostly philosophical one regarding self-learning AIs used in any sort of social context ... but that's a whole new discussion.

02-19-2023, 03:16 AM	#19
Pierre Lawrence Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 2600000 Join Date: Sep 2018 Location: New Jersey Device: kindle, nook	Here's a link to another article on BookTok, from a feminist perspective. If you can get by one of the more gratuitous, contorted uses of the f-word occurring shortly into the piece, the rest of it might be of interest. https://lithub.com/booktok-is-good-a...ly_master_list