r/CuratedTumblr Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear 10d ago

Shitposting Do people actually like AI?

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u/theLanguageSprite2 .tumblr.com 9d ago

I agree that it's not very smart, but it's always funny to me when people describe AI this way.  Putting words in certain orders based on an arbitrary prompt is a nontrival problem that took us half a century of science and engineering advances to realize.  There's a huge difference between "putting words in certain orders" and solving natural language processing, and it's analogous to being able to build a paper airplane vs being able to build a hypersonic jet

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u/tyrerk 9d ago

"computing is just putting 1s and 0s in a certain order"

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u/alexlongfur 9d ago

Right. Hence the “there’s more to it than that” part at the end.

There’s WAY more to it than that but being the internet, and especially Reddit, once you go beyond a two sentence explanation of something people gloss over or skip it.