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The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…

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[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

There's a subset of artificial intelligence called unsupervised learning which is a form of statistical analysis in which you let an agent find patterns in data for you, as opposed to trying to drive the agent to a desired outcome. I'm not 100% sure that is what the website author was using, but it sounded pretty close to it. It's extremely powerful and not anything like the generative LLMs most people now think of when the words AI are thrown around.

I agree though, it sucks project got killed it seemed super interesting and insightful.