• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah absolutely, I’m specifically talking about AI as a neural network/reinforcement learning/machine learning and whatnot. Top of the line weather algorithms are now less accurate than neural networks.

    LLMs as doctors are pretty garbage since they’re predicting words instead of classifying a photo into yes/no or detecting which part of the sleep cycle a sleeping patient is in.

    Fun fact, the closer you get the actual math the less magical the words become. Marketing says “AI”, programming says “machine learning” or “neural network”, mathematicians say “reinforcement learning”.

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      9 hours ago

      I guess I worked with a guy working with algorithms and neural networks so I sorta just equated them. I was very obviously not a CS major.

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        3 hours ago

        Maybe it was my CS major talking there. An algorithm is a sequence of steps to reach a desired outcome such as updating a neural network. The network itself is essentially just a big heap of values you multiply through if you were curious.