The absolute state of AI results.

[sammoHung]

I worked alongside Machine Learning researchers in 2023/2024. Working on "robotic vision" and "machine learning." The absolute fuckin hubris of some of the colleagues I had - to think they were smart enough to recreate actual intelligence. I remember asking a question to one of my colleagues if infrared signals, or other radar technology could be used to enhance robotic vision. Their response was, "we aren't focused on that - we're focused on image processing."

But image processing is only one of the senses that animals use to traverse the world. Yet autonomous cars all have this crazy image processing technology - but the goons that create it aren't focusing on the billions of years of sense evolution that predates vision. Yah know, instead of starting with an autonomous vehicle - why not start with an autonomous micro-organism? Or insect? That would be the pathway to real artificial intelligence, in my opinion.

I keep promising to stop calling it AI, but never can -- in reality it's either machine learning algorithms, large language models, transformers, or very basic convolutional neural networks and most definitely not a true "artificial intelligence"

But even some of these terms like machine "learning." Marketing terms to sell a product to increase funding for more research. It's really fucking dumb - the state of things. Electrical and Computer engineers are saying they have been able to replicate things that biologists and psychologists still don't completely understand.


But again - just a marketing ploy. Come up with catchy names for these things to trick the average Joe BigBucks Investor into dumping $10 mil into an advanced auto-complete, like most cell-phones have had for 10+ years now.

Hot take, but it's at least an educated take: Capitalism actually BAD for technological progress. Because the bottom line and investor returns are the only thing that matter. How can we get people to buy this shit? And how can we market this shit as shit that people "need" to live in the modern society? And how can we make sure that this shit is the only shit that drives innovation? And now we have this ridiculous auroboros of an economy that is focused on feeding educated people into making AI chips and Language Models instead of furthering research in other fields as the #1 priority.