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Comment Re:Duh! (Score 3, Interesting) 68

Correct. Since it's not thinking, it's not artificial intelligence. It only looks like it's thinking. This is Simulated Intelligence.

No need to invent new terms. In english language, the word Artificial has many meanings - and this is why "AI" is such a controversial term.

It seems that the Artificial in "Artificial intelligence" is commonly understood to mean "man made", but I would argue it originally meant either of these other interpretations: Artificial in "Artificial Smile" means fake. And artificial in "artificial gun sound" means something imitating a gun sound.

Comment Funny and sad (Score 4, Insightful) 40

Wonderful news, if this really leads to a cure. But I couldn't help myself thinking that this would have been a much better and convincing story if only they had left out the "with AI" part. These days, anything with an AI angle reads more like marketing text instead of scientific/medical news.

Comment Re:What was he going on about? (Score 1) 33

No, he is not, why would you think that?

I would think that because there are no good parallels between AI and the Linux kernel. AI models are not a single person's passion project, and they're not clearly on track to become core infrastructure. The leading models are closed source and too huge for hobbyists to run, or even most teams to run on-premises. The models that people can run for themselves are still more or less toys in comparison, and have stayed that way. That makes it much more difficult for a loosely coupled team to collaborate.

I would argue that even though Linux originated as a single person's passion project, it quickly became a joint effort, with ever growing contributor base.

Similar argument can be said on the SCIENCE behind neural networks. I read a good book on the history of the subject - since about 2010, as the interest started growing in neural networks, the leading minds insisted that their employers let them publish their findings (i.e. science). This is the reason that others have been able to build on that expertise, in a not dissimilar way from the Linux project.

For example, the idea of transformer architecture, which is behind all current LLMs, originated from Google - and was published as open science for others to build on: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1810.048... . Later on, as more and more vendors have turned closed source, these Deepseeks kind of re-enable this long lasting trend in neural network research.

Comment Re:What was he going on about? (Score 1) 33

Is he confusing the Linux kernel for all of open source? I thought we got over that blinkered view of open source and free software 25 years ago.

No, he is not, why would you think that? He is talking about Linux kernel, how it blossomed as open source project - using it as an example of a successful open source project.

Comment Re:No need to worry. (Score 2) 66

You have it backwards. Tariffs are paid by the importer and very probably that cost is carried over to the consumer.
And EU exports many items that are quite crucial to US economy, i.e. there are no easy substitutes - thus, this hurts US economy.

Most exported goods from EU to US? Top of the list:
1. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products
2. Medicaments
3. Motor cars (BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi, Ferrari, Porche, Lamborghini, etc...)
4. Aircraft and associated equipment (e.g. Boeing 777/787 and F35 use Rolls-Royce engines)
And the list goes on. Good luck redesigning the F35 !

Comment Re:It is all smoke and mirrors anyways (Score 1) 31

If only there were some other use for AI than chatbots. Maybe even something that might even get you a Nobel prize.

As that one probably went "woosh" over most people heads here, let me highlight here that Google Deepmind's AlphaFold2 developers won the Nobel prize for Chemistry last year: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nobelprize.org%2Fprizes%2Fchemistry%2F2024%2Fpress-release%2F

Comment Re: Programmed (Score 1) 121

I think you are too young to know how the world works.

Because you are so young, you may not know that

An interesting Argumentum ad hominem. If anything, it highlighted that you are not very comfortable with your own argumentation. Besides, I'm probably way older than you...

"readily available" information as you put it is mostly unauthorized.

I have thousands of books in my bookshelves. Bought used and new. There are no licenses restricting on how I use them. I can lend them to anyone, I can sell them. But if I train an LLM form my own use (local network only), I wouldn't be allowed to feed the LLM with those books?

Comment Re: Programmed (Score 1) 121

But the question is how much more useful will it get than it is today. Besides, they have to have a right to process all that information. So far they have broken the law to get this far.

Why would you say that an artificial brain (say, neural network) would need special right to process information readily available, but a real brain would not need it? Your thinking ability is partially based on those books that you read as a child and in school. Why wouldn't artificial brain be allowed to be fed information in a similar way?

Comment Re:Come back when it's running on my iPhone6 (Score 1) 58

It does not seem to be the RAM that makes AI work. It seems to be the trillions of integer calculations the chip can do in a second.

It this is correct, then this begs a question: why would this affect accuracy of the AI results at all?
Shouldn't it just be slower producing it (not less accurate), when run on a slower machine?

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