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Sorry for the potato photograph, my phone was a potato, I was a student after all

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Our phones back then were actual potatoes and we wore them next to the turnip on our belt, as was the fashion back then.

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That was before the dicketies.

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A propos potato cameras (i recommend checking out the channel):

https://youtu.be/BlWyKKJF0r4

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Looks more like an egg to me

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So much of the drift has just been marketing. Rebranding a Markov Chain stapled onto a particularly large graph as Master Computer from Tron.

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Fr I was about to say the same thing. Aside from better hardware and more layers the technology really hasn’t changed from this level to begin with.

We’ve learned a little about what emergent behavior and trends look like in machine learning algorithms when graphed, though: it becomes more and more convergent, as if it forms its own little confirmation bias it will produce more and more samey results.

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Rebranding a Markov Chain stapled onto a particularly large graph

Could you elaborate how this applies to various areas of AI in your opinion?

Several models are non-markovian. Then there are also a lot of models and algorithms, where the description as or even comparison to Markov-chains would be incorrect and not suitable.

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I’m not sure what people think AI was ever going to be… every time something new comes out it’s always dismissed because “it’s basically just a X that does Y”. I think that will continue to be the case until there is some literal connection to actual brains, in which case the concept of what a brain is will probably be questioned as well.

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I’m not sure what people think AI was ever going to be…

The heavy investment in AI is coming under the assumption that these advanced processes will replace huge portions of the human workforce.

So we don’t need lawyers, because we just put prompts into a Law AI and it gives us a verdict. We don’t need doctors, because we just put symptoms into a Medical AI and it gives us a diagnosis and treatment plan. We don’t need salespeople, because we just put the product into a Marketing AI and it spits out a bunch of comvincing ad copy.

the concept of what a brain is will probably be questioned as well.

We already connect our brains to our computers. We just use screens and keyboards as our interface.

I suppose you could argue that a guy with a calculator or a camera or a chat app is mentally different than one without it. But I think the goal with AI is supplementing human minds, not complementing then.

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I remember that book! Wasn’t it basically, how to make your own Eliza with a bunch of If…Then’s?

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Wait does it teach ai programming in BASIC?

10 dim prompt
20 input(prompt)
30 pring "Nice to meet you"+prompt
40 play g3 c4 e4
50 goto 20
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Syntax error on line 30
Please insert Pringles verification can to use pring function 
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I’m in middle of a Rust module of a course, so I’ll do some Programmer Friendly Error Messages:

Line 10: You do not need to dimension a dimensionless variable such as a standalone string variable. (This ain’t Visual Basic.)
Line 20: input doesn’t do parentheses, sorry
Line 20: Input accepts a string: Perhaps you meant prompt$?
Line 30: Concatenation is too modern, perhaps instead of + you meant ; just saying?
Line 40: Invalid syntax with play, maybe you meant play "g3c4e4"?

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Oh my! Haha all these modern languages poisoned my memory

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What does pring do?

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