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Pluralistic: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble (09 Mar 2023)

Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/

AI has all the hallmarks of a classic pump-and-dump, starting with terminology. AI isn't "artificial" and it's not "intelligent." "Machine learning" doesn't learn. On this week's Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of autocomplete – not our new robot overlord.\
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NHKMZZNKi0w9mOhPYIL4T

And when autocomplete encounters a new input – when you try to type something you've never typed before – it tries to get you to finish your sentence with the statistically median thing that everyone would type next, on average. Usually that produces something utterly bland, but sometimes the results can be hilarious. Back in 2018, I started to text our babysitter with "hey are you free to sit" only to have Android finish the sentence with "on my face" (not something I'd ever typed!):

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