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   Bill Ricker (n1vux@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 00:22:44 JST Bill Ricker

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   right, those inside CS understand that for 50 years, AI has been code for "our heuristic algorithm doesn't quite work on the general case yet but it's fun to keep trying, and and the rigged demos / simple cases impresses the peasants so grants are renewed."

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 00:22:45 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Matt Blaze

     @mattblaze I suspect people outside CS have a much more naive view of what CS can achieve (via LLMs).

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 00:22:47 JST Matt Blaze

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     What I find particularly interesting/disturbing is that he percentage of people working on/near AI seems to be higher among people OUTSIDE CS than in it.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 00:22:48 JST Matt Blaze

     I was recently at an interdisciplinary meeting (heavily skewed toward, but not exclusively, social science academics) in which easily 85% of the people there said they were working on AI or something related.

     The current AI/LLM/AGI/whatever mania seems to have metastasized even more broadly than blockchain did. There are interesting and important problems there, but it seems to have become an intellectual black hole across the academy.