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‘AI-Mazing Tech-Venture’: National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees (www.404media.co)
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In June, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave employees a presentation and tech demo called “AI-mazing Tech-venture” in which Google’s Gemini AI was presented as a tool archives employees could use to “enhance productivity.” During a demo, the AI was queried with questions about the John F. Kennedy assassination, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by 404 Media using a public records request.  

In December, NARA plans to launch a public-facing AI-powered chatbot called “Archie AI,” 404 Media has learned. “The National Archives has big plans for AI,” a NARA spokesperson told 404 Media. It’s going to be essential to how we conduct our work, how we scale our services for Americans who want to be able to access our records from anywhere, anytime, and how we ensure that we are ready to care for the records being created today and in the future.”

Employee chat logs given during the presentation show that National Archives employees are concerned about the idea that AI tools will be used in archiving, a practice that is inherently concerned with accurately recording history. 

One worker who attended the presentation told 404 Media “I suspect they're going to introduce it to the workplace. I'm just a person who works there and hates AI bullshit.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

AI used to mean sentience, or close enough to truly mimic it, until marketing departments felt that machine learning was good enough.

I'm sorry, a computer using matrices to determine hot dog, or not hot dog, because it's model has a million hot dog photos in it, is not AI.

LLMs don't reason. There is no intelligence, artificial or otherwise.

It's doing a lot of calculations in cool new ways, sometimes. But that's what computers do, and no matter how many copilot buttons Microsoft sells, there's no AI coming out of those laptops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

August 31, 1955 The term “artificial intelligence” is coined in a proposal for a “2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence” submitted by John McCarthy (Dartmouth College), Marvin Minsky (Harvard University), Nathaniel Rochester (IBM), and Claude Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories)

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html

This is just literally not true.

Point 3 is what LLMs are.

You are thinking of general artificial intelligence from sci-fi

An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans,

This is what artificial intelligence actually means. Solving problems that traditionally require intelligence

Path finding algorithms in games are AI. And have always been referred to as such. We studied them my AI module at uni.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No that's the corporate perverted saleable product of an academic field

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

No it's a neural network. They may be over-hyped but they are 100% an AI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

The bot is hallucinating entire conversations again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

The first time I saw AI was on the N64.