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Not all ai is bad, just most of it (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I particularly "Love" that a bunch of like, procedural generation and search things that have existed for years are now calling themselves "AI" (without having changed in any way) because marketing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of how everything on a computer used to be a "program", but now they're all just "apps"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will die on the hill of calling them computer programs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Same. It's like the one thing where I am a total boomer on

[–] AeonFelis 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My pet theory is that Apple started to use that term because "App" can also be short for "Apple".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I buy it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It just works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

What's a computer?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I read a story on CBC the other day that was all about how an AI voice was taking over from hosts on off-hours at some local radio station, then deeper in the article it revealed that everything the "AI" reads was written by a human. So it was about someone using text-to-speech technology that has been around since at least the 70s the whole time. Hardly newsworthy in any way except for "IT'S AI!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Mind you there -are- TTS tools that use machine learning (which is what advertisers call "AI" now) for more realistic voices. No idea if the radio was using those at all though.