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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
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    So it’s a new synonym for algorithm.

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      Not quite. Algorithms are definite, you get the same guaranteed output if you give the same input every time. AI is generally more fuzzy logic.

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        If it can run on a computer, its an algorithm. Definitionally.

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          Great, Linux is an algorithm.

          It might be accurate, but it’s also vague enough that it’s a pretty useless definition.

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