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   Julian Oliver (julianoliver@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 22:07:47 JST Julian Oliver

   What is meant by 'AI' now includes:

   - Anything procedurally generated
   - Some automation built from input
   - Devices that take voice commands
   - Text to speech (esp. if female voice with English accent)
   - Speech to text (any accent)
   - Autocomplete
   - An NPC in a videogame
   - Half of all apps for Android
   - Your bank's next website
   - Any serverside or closed source software you can hide some amount of complexity in
   - Surprising photography
   - Clippy

   Update your taxonomies.

   #ai #ml

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     she hacked you (ekis@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 22:07:47 JST she hacked you

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     @JulianOliver Yeah, happened with cloud too. These hype cycles are so tiresome, but worse they divert so much money from meaningful projects, especially when they parade themselves around as open-source.

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     Rune Skovbo Johansen (runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 05:52:17 JST Rune Skovbo Johansen

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     @JulianOliver In the context of the game industry, the term AI (or game AI) has been used for decades to mean simple processes like pathfinding and state machines to control the behavior of NPCs and enemies and give them an impression of autonomy. Anthropomorphization is good in this context, as long as its understood it's based on suspension of disbelief and not actual intelligence.

     alcinnz and Robert Link repeated this.
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     Rune Skovbo Johansen (runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 05:52:18 JST Rune Skovbo Johansen

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     @JulianOliver I get the sentiment here. Due to hype, the term is used so widely that it's lost its meaning. But it's still ultimately better that most of these are based on simple cheap processes rather than the power hungry trained-on-stolen-data large models.

     alcinnz repeated this.
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     Rune Skovbo Johansen (runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 05:53:32 JST Rune Skovbo Johansen

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     @JulianOliver Discounting AI-hyped executives, most of us in the game industry find it awkward that the term we used since forever to refer to these innocent (but still often cool) processes, which are normally carefully crafted to produce consistent results, is now getting conflated with large models produced unethically and prone to bullshitting.