“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260504182905/https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/
I strongly feel that AI is a new and unvetted tool that can be very useful to experts in specific fields. That being said, it’s completely unsuitable for nearly every task it’s currently being used for. LLMs are fucking snake oil machines. Go ahead and spend your fucking tokens getting a decent retort generated. It will help prove my point
Funny, you described machine learning that has been useful in many fields for years now before anyone even heard of “AI”. “AI” is meaningless PR term that has hijacked what used to be called machine learning, machine vision and algorithms. Those are still useful applications, but they are being actively devalued by this capitalism induced craze.
AI is one of those buzzwords that can make your company look more valuable. So everyone includes it, weather it’s useful or not.
And it’s so easy: you use text somewhere in your application? Send it to a LLM together with a prompt and voila - you now have AI in your system. Bam. +200% market value.
Of course I exaggerated a bit, but a lot of people see it like that.
Machine learning is a subsection of AI, and people in general have probably always been more familiar with the term AI than machine learning.
You can say it’s a subsection of artificial intelligence field, but “AI” is not that anymore. Original meaning is lost forever and it’s just a marketing label now.
it’s just a marketing label now.
An accurate one. Not sure what the problem is, then.
Great idea! would you like me to write up a business plan for removing regional accents from dog barking?
thanks, good write up
Meta-commentary about AI slop if I’ve ever seen one done so well
