• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Stop attributing comprehension and agency

    That’s not what this is doing. At all. It’s saying it produced a solution.


    Edit: Y’all, mathematicians literally use deterministic algorithms called SAT solvers that solve the Boolean satisfiability problem. Saying an algorithm “solved” a math problem is not ascribing it comprehension or agency.

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      6 hours ago

      Some more context on sat and first order solvers in math: the first open math problem solved autonomously by a computer was in 1997, well before the advent of generative ai.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s the age of AI, words don’t mean anything anymore. They only point to other words. The word “solve” may have a “definition” but that’s irrelevant compared to how the word makes me feel.

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        12 hours ago

        That’s literally always been true. Humans are emotional speakers and use language that feels right more than we use language that factually accurate.

        The spicies have been trying to tell you this for decades.

      • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        Using non anthropomorphic language for AI just makes discussing it more obtuse and complex for no reason.