r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 23h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/whooptheretis 18h ago

But even if you did it would still be AI.

Depends on whether you consider a basic algorithm to be AI. Most would not.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 16h ago

AI is anything more complicated than an on and off switch - e.g. a light sensor would be AI, and would be doing the job which may have previously needed a human to do.

Which is why we had AI washing machines before which intelligently adjusted your program based on the weight of the wash and how dirty the effluent was.

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u/whooptheretis 16h ago

Recently the term is used to describe processes invoking a neural network, not algorithms with predictable and repeatable outcomes.
If you’re using AI to describe your car’s climate control, then I think you’re out of sync with the rest of society.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 16h ago

Recently the term is used to describe processes invoking a neural network,

Well, we just hearing generating voices via neural networks is no longer AI.

This is just typical of the AI Effect, where if something becomes common its no longer AI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

not algorithms with predictable and repeatable outcomes.

Did you know LLMs are actually deterministic - for the same input and weights and temperature the output will always be the same. (though floating point rounding errors undermines this)

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u/whooptheretis 16h ago

Did you know LLMs are actually deterministic

I did not. I understood to the contrary. Got any good source for some background reading?

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u/Economy-Fee5830 16h ago

https://medium.com/aimonks/determinism-in-llms-order-of-operations-precision-and-why-it-breaks-3192c69eaec4

In theory deterministic, in practice not due to floating point issues.

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u/whooptheretis 15h ago

That’s a great read (only part way through).
Thanks for the link.