Thread by @Nash076

AI is not artificial intelligence. It's an aggregator that uses statistical analysis and pattern recognition to identify elements of a photo, of writing, or whatever task it's being used for.

Think of how many people here on social media can't grasp that.

Neither can CEOs.

Everything produced by what they call "AI" is just a collage. Oh, it's a very complex and complicated collage, but a collage none the less.

There's nothing original. What's produced is just a series of rehashes and further the system doesn't UNDERSTAND what it spits out.

And that's the crucial element: without comprehension, the product of AI is gibberish.

It's complex gibberish that doesn't present that way at first, but as you go longer into the work you realize it doesn't actually make any sense.

ChatGPT analyzes works, and by way of pattern recognition it tags when a particular sentence or phrase is used, what precedes it, what follows it, and drawing from those percentages it decides what goes where.

That's it. No insight. No themes. Just legos.

I hate to go back to Whedon, but remember when Buffy died and the Scoobys used that Buffy robot to make the monsters think there was still a slayer?

(Patience, go with it.)

And when she talked, she said shit like "That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!"

That's ChatGPT. It can recognize a style based on how many examples you feed the program, but it doesn't know what the fuck the words mean.

It's a billion dollar parrot: a curiosity and a spectacle, but it's still just a fucking parrot.

What's what the #writersstrike comes down to: executives like renowned genius David Zaslav are betting the future of entertainment on a really complicated parrot because they don't understand it's just a fucking parrot.

That would be the end of the industry as we know it.

Damn got a bunch of replies that were all "You don't get it you're being reductive it's much more complex because (insert woo-woo bullshit here)."

Goddamn they want this shit to be magic somehow.

"Blah blah blah how do you know humans aren't the same thing"

Because when I reflexively say "hello" in response to someone else's "hello," I understand that hello is:

-a greeting
-an acknowledgement
-friendly
-puts others at ease
-make them feel a bit better

"AI" doesn't.

When you say "hello" and ChatGPT responds with hello, it understands hello is:

-statistically what most writing indicates is the response to hello
-maybe it decides another greeting is more statistically relevant and responds with "hi"

And that's it.

Goddamn y'all dumb.

BUT YOU DON'T KNOOOOOOOOOOOW HOW CAN YOU KNOOOOOOOOOOW

Motherfucker you wired a bunch of video cards together and fed it math *the end*

This shit ain't Electric Dreams but I bet some of you silly shits poured champagne on your XT-era PC to find out.

Number Five is not alive, you ain't bringing your dead girlfriend back to life by putting a microchip in her head and no matter how many times you hook a barbie doll up to some jumper cables and a SCSI port it's not turning into Kelly fucking LeBrock.

It's. Just. Math.

The fact that many of the same people behind THAT shit have piled in behind THIS shit isn't turning on any lightbulbs, either.

https://twitter.com/CrashThompsonXO/status/1653784540999983105

Maybe your brain, honey.

Mark stop using experience to cloud this debate riddle me this prove your RTX 4080 isn't sad you can't I win

https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1653785601894756358