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Offline Matthew

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AI is rock-stupid department
« on: April 05, 2023, 01:41:18 PM »
I was traveling in San Antonio yesterday with the help of Google Maps. One of the streets was "Houston St."

The Google Maps lady voice kept calling Houston st. "House - ton" rather than the correct pronunciation "Hyoo ston".

We're talking about "Houston", the 4th largest city in the United States. This is Google, a major company. And Google Maps is not a minor app. And this is a street in downtown San Antonio, the 10th largest city in the United States.

No one has fixed it yet!
But the rock-stupid software sees "hous" and pronounces it "house".

Something a 4-year old Texan would get right -- the word "Houston" -- a computer doesn't even recognize because it has ZERO INTELLIGENCE.

This is the intelligence we're supposed to fear for our lives, and for our jobs?

I'm a software developer and no, I'm not the least bit afraid of AI taking away my job. AI has no intelligence and never will. So it can't design or intellege jack ****.
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Offline Cornelius

Re: AI is rock-stupid department
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2023, 01:54:30 PM »
AI is just marketing language to make algorithms look cool so companies, universities, and researchers can get funding. "Science" is becoming more and more about hype, marketing, and money than about actual knowledge. Not sure if it's better or worse than it being driven by ego and prestige, though.
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Offline dxcat40

Re: AI is rock-stupid department
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2023, 04:31:49 PM »
I posted a link in the other topic with a video that used AI Speech Generation. Depending on the training, it can be quite impressive. You might try testing the best software before making these kinds of conclusions, because Google Maps isn't that.
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Offline Matthew

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Re: AI is rock-stupid department
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2023, 07:18:42 AM »
It's all written by human beings, fed data into its database by human beings -- and that data was produced by human beings.

Yes, I've been around computers since they came out. I've seen some very impressive software. All written by human beings created in God's image (having Intellect and Free Will). Computers will never have either.

Computers are determined by the next machine opcode instruction and/or the data they are processing. And they certainly have no soul, consciousness, or "ghost in the machine".

AI is a misleading buzzword. It's all still software that needs human beings to write it, train it, maintain it, feed it. It will never be otherwise.
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Offline dxcat40

Re: AI is rock-stupid department
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2023, 07:23:09 AM »
But it is software that might create some joblessness. Even pros have been using different "AI" software to save time and money. As far as I know, different posters have been agreement about the nature of the beast, but not on the implications.
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