Oct 16, 2026, 3:11 AMDo you have any idea how many decades old the field of AI is? Seven decades!
If you're using the term "AI" only to refer to the slop machines marketed by Elon Musk and his friends, you're doing their marketing for them.
- Oct 16, 2026, 3:11 AM
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Darth Oslerautolycos@beige.partyOct 16, 2026, 3:19 AM@cass @ZenHeathen Monte Carlo method better for you?
arclightarclight@oldbytes.spaceOct 16, 2026, 8:42 AM@autolycos @cass @ZenHeathen Machine learning? Anyone else remember 2015?
ZenHeathen 🇨🇦ZenHeathen@beige.partyOct 16, 2026, 9:55 AM@arclight @autolycos @cass I'm pretty sure I clearly referred to "techbros shoving AI" into everything, which is *not* a 2015 thing.
- Oct 16, 2026, 6:18 PM
@arclight @autolycos @ZenHeathen
Machine Learning has been around since the 1950s. Neural nets are not new. Computing power and algorithms have improved a great deal over the years, though.
When I studied AI in college, it was seen as incredibly geeky and not very lucrative. It's like people don't remember anything that happened more than 5 years ago.