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The whole "AI" trend is a marketing scheme - Maxmars - 07-13-2024
I feel vindicated... at least a little.
For many months, here and in my last incarnation at ATS, I have been strongly opinionated when speaking about all the "AI" news and hoopla... And not just "for" or "against."
It was (and is) my contention that most (in fact, nearly all) of the media offerings about AI, and the social media echoes, were FAR from the mark. People have a 'thought form' in their head about what AI is... and few ever account for the fact that it still doesn't exist. They fret, and contort, to accommodate scenarios of doom, or they glow and sing about the positive 'possibilities' of such a development. All seeming to presume that we are there. Imagining that a self-aware, reasoning, independently motivated entity has been 'created' within a 'virtual' machine environment.
It never happened. (Although I'm willing to admit the effort seems to be underway... but we haven't seen even a hint of this possibility in reality.)
All the hype, all the churning, even the billions spent "fighting for safeguards" and purposefully flooding the info-sphere with alarm has been... "A marketing effort." (Yeah, I'm saying we are being "played.")
From ArsTechnica: OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework
Subtitled: Five-level AI classification system probably best seen as a marketing exercise.
Based upon original reporting by
Bloomberg: OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward ‘Human-Level’ Problem Solving
Subtitled: The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence
You won't need me to breakdown the information in the above sources... but it's important to note the way the former 're-titled' the work of the latter.
Here's a little quote to give you an reason for my locking on to this story...
OpenAI recently unveiled a five-tier system to gauge its advancement toward developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to an OpenAI spokesperson who spoke with Bloomberg. The company shared this new classification system on Tuesday with employees during an all-hands meeting, aiming to provide a clear framework for understanding AI advancement. However, the system describes hypothetical technology that does not yet exist and is possibly best interpreted as a marketing move to garner investment dollars.
[Underlining is mine.]
"Finally," I thought to myself, "the actual 'experts' have admitted that a collection of 'algorithms' IS NOT artificial intelligence."
In this new framework, the think-tank "OpenAI" describes the process of achieving AI in five steps.... we are at step 2.
Just as a thought exercise, imagine yourself having to describe how something works... so you can "model" it in a simulation. But you don't really KNOW how it works, you know so little about it, you can only talk about it in euphemisms and memes... When you are pressed to "show your work" you will describe it as some measure of success, no matter how small... take this as a metaphor for "Artificial Intelligence."
Computer scientists have barely begun to understand how a person's brain works, let alone a person's mind. And here they were, the marketing boys from Big Tech... planting stories and tales about "AI."
Anyway... rant over... maybe this belongs in THE RANT Forum?
