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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cute, OP.

Your understanding of AI is so non-existent that you think AI is only the little bot that interacts online with an end user like yourself?

No.

AI detects some forms of cancer better than human doctors. It's already in supervised use in medical settings. AI is in offices around the country, used to facilitate data searches (in highly technical areas like patents, for example), generate accurate weather predictions better than previous algorithms, build programs for finance and engineering, and so many other things.

Unless you want to live off the grid, you cannot "opt out" of AI. And you won't want to. Despite all the scaremongering, AI has the potential to save millions of lives in medical progress and emergency preparedness alone. It's already contributing to those fields significantly.

- scientist.

What a ridiculous thought.
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Sort of. We had AI before we had what is now called AI. It was going by machine learning for the longest time. Those algorithms/methods proved to be very successful in pattern recognition areas. Naturally, you have to be careful with the training dataset. I recall one example of a radiology ML that was better radiologists at detecting cancer. The problem is that it was "reading" the notations on the X-rays. It had to be retrained. With the advent of GPUs and models capable of supporting millions of weights, it became possible to create what is an overgrown text predictor. Since investors are willing to dump funds into this "AI," everyone has been quick to rebrand everything as AI. Even Bayesian inference is being called AI in an attempt to grab the attention of investors. It's been around since we first started building computers, but it sounds so much cooler if you call it AI.

So, several different kinds of AI are all getting lumped together. When you say "opting out of AI" or "AI is evil," those phrases have no meaning without specifics because AI isn't a single thing.

--engineer[/quote]

PP you replied to. Thank you for your clarification. Yes, I understand what you mean. [/quote]

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