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Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 234 points 2 weeks ago (36 children)

No bubble has deserved to pop as much as AI deserves to

[–] [email protected] 178 points 2 weeks ago (27 children)

Blockchain and crypto were worse. „AI” has some actual use even if it’s way overblown.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm not even understanding what AI is at this point because there's no delineation between moderately sophisticated algorithms and things that are orders of magnitude more complex.

I mean, if something like multisampling came out today we'd all know how it'd be marketed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Technically speaking how I differentiate it is:

clever algorithm is a good heuristic
statistics on steroids is machine learning
using a transformer model is AI (for now)

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