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   samir, object-disoriented (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:50:41 JST samir, object-disoriented

   Stop saying “artificial intelligence”. (And “neural networks” too.)

   Be more specific. Say “reinforcement learning”. Say “generative modelling”. Say “Bayesian filtering”. Say “statistical prediction”.

   These are incredibly useful tools that have nothing to do with “intelligence”.

   And say “model trained on plagiarised data”.

   Say “bullshit generator”.

   Say “internet regurgitator”.

   These are also nothing to do with intelligence, but they have the added bonus of being useless, too.

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     samir, object-disoriented (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 06:04:42 JST samir, object-disoriented

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     Some banging euphemisms for LLMs in the comments.

     I am very partial to the original, "stochastic parrots", by Gebru, Mitchell et al.

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 06:08:32 JST Church of Jeff

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     @samir -- Internet Theft Machine?