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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:10:56 JST tante

   Here's the thing: "AI" is stories and tales of magical gains in the future. It needs massive critique.
   There also is "machine learning" which is a field of computer science that does sometimes produce relevant work and can be useful.
   But those things are basically distinct.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:52:33 JST pettter

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     @tante Not really? It varies with the level of AI hype basically, but there areany techniques and application areas which have migrated back and forth multiple times from being ML and AI and back again.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:53:20 JST pettter

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     • Kudusch

     @Kudusch @tante It's definitely mostly an empty signifier yes

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     Kudusch (kudusch@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 17:53:21 JST Kudusch

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     @tante Its crazy how nebulous the term AI has gotten. Feels like the term will end up how Dan Olson described the term metaverse: "It’s a vague, largely incoherent cloud of ideas that’s malleable enough that basically anything can be called part of the metaverse …"