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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bots and AI aren't the same thing. Bots are just automations, not necessarily making use of machine learning.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I saw someone unironically last month call Excel spreadsheet formulas "AI".

The term is rapidly approaching meaninglessness when used by anyone remotely non-technical. I'm probably going to miss an edge case here, but basically:

Classic AI = mostly search algorithms (Dijkstra, A*, etc), simple neural nets (e.g. perceptron) and prolog (to trivialise logic languages)

Modern AI = Machine Learning and the utilisation of those models trained by it. (Tensorflow, LLMs, etc)

Everything else = not AI, just technology.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would include "video game AI" since semantically it is pretty well-accepted, even though it's not really AI. Things like goal-based behaviour as well as the pathfinding algos you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

There's the edge case haha, yeah I agree, game AI is a pretty accepted and understood concept

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

And AI is automation too.