• nednobbins@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Can someone explain this joke in programmer terms?

    I just wrote an AI that is trained to classify image patterns and automatically creates bitmasks based on the pattern distributions. We tried k-means clustering and got garbage. How would I have done that without AI?

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      3 days ago

      The current hype trend is to build a lazy web UI around a general agentic AI and calling it a day.

      What you’re doing is more similar to what established firms were already doing with machine learning 5 years back.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah, the joke is that every company is trying to ram LLMs and Agentic LLMs into everything without thinking about what they’re trying to accomplish. Like the trend with blockchain a decade ago.

      Yours is a valid use case for ai. That’s why it doesn’t fit the meme.

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        4 days ago

        But the meme is making the more extreme claim that no uses exist, so any counterexamples mean it’s untrue. Not the best way of criticizing companies that don’t know or care what a technology is good for imo.

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          4 days ago

          the meme is making the more extreme claim that no uses exist

          Only if you take it literally instead of as a joke that is exaggerating for comedic effect.