The kicker:

The system isn’t purely run on AI. It also relies on human input to help it learn and become more accurate.

And then

And so far it’s getting high marks from employees

(no employees interviewed or cited)

Who call it “Bo-Linda”

Love to regurgitate company PR material as fact

  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The phrase “AI” started out meaning a computer that was actually sentient, and the requirements have become more and more loosened and lax that machine learning now counts as “AI”.

    It’s so annoying. You get headlines like “AI discovers faster matrix multiplication algorithm”. Just from the headline, you’d assume researchers spoke to the fucking HAL 9000 and it taught them how to multiply matrices better. When in reality they just trained a neural network

    • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      It’s like those hoverboards from a few years ago. They took a well known sci-fi concept, stole the name for something that literally no one recognizes as the thing they think about when they hear the term. Except this time with “AI” an entire collapsing economy uses the new fake sci-fi crap to prop itself up and then the news breathlessly reports all the spurious claims about it as true.