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It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots (text.npr.org)
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[โ€“] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At the end of the day, LLM/AI/ML/etc is still just a glorified computer program. It also happens to be absolutely terrible for the environment.

Insert "fraction of our power" meme here

[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, they're all computer programs, no, they're not all as spectacularly energy, water and money intensive, as reliant on mass plagiarism as LLMs.

AI is a much, much more varied field of research than just LLMs... or, well, rather, it was, untill the entire industry decided to go all in on what 5 years ago was just one of many, many, radically different approaches, such that people now basically just think AI and LLM are the same thing.