We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We’re starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

  • bionicjoeyEnglish
    233·
    5 months ago

    Bots and AI aren’t the same thing. Bots are just automations, not necessarily making use of machine learning.

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      I saw someone unironically last month call Excel spreadsheet formulas “AI”.

      The term is rapidly approaching meaninglessness when used by anyone remotely non-technical. I’m probably going to miss an edge case here, but basically:

      Classic AI = mostly search algorithms (Dijkstra, A*, etc), simple neural nets (e.g. perceptron) and prolog (to trivialise logic languages)

      Modern AI = Machine Learning and the utilisation of those models trained by it. (Tensorflow, LLMs, etc)

      Everything else = not AI, just technology.

      • bionicjoeyEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        I would include “video game AI” since semantically it is pretty well-accepted, even though it’s not really AI. Things like goal-based behaviour as well as the pathfinding algos you mentioned.

        • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          There’s the edge case haha, yeah I agree, game AI is a pretty accepted and understood concept