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Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm not even understanding what AI is at this point because there's no delineation between moderately sophisticated algorithms and things that are orders of magnitude more complex.

I mean, if something like multisampling came out today we'd all know how it'd be marketed

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

The AI buzzword means machine learning. You give it a massive dataset and it identifies correlations.

Regular hand-coded AI is mostly simple state machines.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AI is a ridiculous broad term these days. Everybody had been slapping the label on anything. It's kinda like saying "transportation" and it means anything between babies crawling up to wrap drive and teleportation.

[–] RarePossum@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because most of them are AI

It's just once AI becomes useful (and not magical), we tend to stop calling it AI unless AI gets more VC money.

It's called the AI effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Technically speaking how I differentiate it is:

clever algorithm is a good heuristic
statistics on steroids is machine learning
using a transformer model is AI (for now)