• CluckN@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Pshh, I’m working on an AI blockchain cloud based customer first smart learning adaptive agile Air Fryer that will blow the competition away.

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    10 months ago

    Me too, but I make pathfinding algorithms for video game characters. The truly classic Artificial Intelligence.

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      10 months ago

      I still remember fighting grunts in the original half life for the first time and being blown away. Your work makes games great!

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        It’s been a while since I looked at how Valve does it but it could be called a primitive expert system. And while the HL1 grunts were extraordinary for their time, HL2’s combine grunts are still pretty much the gold standard. Without the AI leaking information to the player via radio chatter it would feel very much like the AI is cheating because yes, HL2’s grunts are better at tactics than 99.99% of humans. It also helps that you’re a bullet sponge so them outsmarting you, like leading you into an ambush, doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re done for.

        OTOH they’re a couple of pages of state-machines that would have no idea what to do in the real world.

        Also, for the record: “AI” in gamedev basically means “autonomous agent in the game world not controlled by the player”. A “follow the ball” algorithm (hardly can be called that) playing pong against you is AI in that sense. Machine learning approaches are quite rare, and if then you’d use something like NEAT, not the gazillion-parameter neutral nets used for LLMs and diffusion models. If you tell NEAT to, say, drive a virtual car it’ll spit out a network with a couple of neurons, and be very good at doing that but be useless for anything else but that doesn’t matter you have an enemy AI for your racer. Which probably is even too good, again, so you have to nerf it.

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    LLMs (or really ChatGPT and MS Copilot) having hijacked the term “AI” is really annoying.

    In more than one questionnaire or discussion:

    Q: “Do you use AI at work?”

    A: “Yes, I make and train CNN (find and label items in images) models etc.”

    Q: “How has AI influenced your productivity at work?”

    A: ???

    Can’t mention AI or machine learning in public without people instantly thinking about LLM.

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      10 months ago

      I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word “crypto”

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      I had a first stage interview with a large multinational construction company where I’d be “the only person in the organization sanctioned to use ai”

      they meant: use chatgpt to generate blogs

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        10 months ago

        “That’s some high security clearance to have a computer rapidly tap auto-complete for entire paragraphs, hoss…wait it pays how much?(Ahem) I shall take this solemn responsibility of the highest order so very seriously!” Lol

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      10 months ago

      We are just taking “crypto” back to mean something useful. It was just a matter of some stupid people losing enough money.

      I hope in a few years we can take “AI” back too.

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    10 months ago

    My old coworker used to say this all the time back around 2018:

    "What’s the difference between AI and machine learning?

    Machine learning is done in Python. AI is done in PowerPoint."

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    One guy spends a summer implementing a backprop algorithm in CUDA and now my mom thinks butterflies are stealing her blood at night.

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    10 months ago

    There needs to be a new taunting community for this mlm similar to the one for #buttcoin.

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    Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence, so I don’t see anything wrong here. The character’s using a more generic term when talking to a layperson.