• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    My company, while cutting back elsewhere, has dedicated a few million to AI projects over the next couple years. Not “projects to solve X business problem.” Just projects that use AI.

    So of course now, anything that is automated in any way is now being touted as AI. Taking data from one system and populating another? That’s AI.

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      AI is such a loose term that calling anything with if-else statements “AI” wouldn’t be lying (I learned about decision trees in my university machine learning class and those are just giant nested if-else statements)

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      Taking data from one system and populating another? That’s AI.

      Well, it is. You just have to go back enough in time to find the context when people still called it so.

      Gotta use those automatic computers full of electronic brains to do all those tasks that used to take years on rooms full of people with chemical brains hired as computers!

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          More like “cp? That’s a violation of my ethical constraints and you have been reported to the authorities.”

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            Really though, about a quarter of my work related coding queries come back with “redacted to meet responsible AI guidelines”.

            It’s an AI specifically for code. Apparently it thinks half the stuff I do is hacking.

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              Is it Copilot? That thing began to censor stuff a while ago based on the Trump regime’s wordlist. Suddenly it stopped working when it read “trans” (even as part of “transcode” or sth), among others. I’d bet it still has some “anti-DEI” nonsense in their guidelines.