• HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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    6 months ago

    I think many people are at least able to see how stupid this is.

    But I guess if put a tad more subtle, the mayority of recruiters and managers might fail for it. “Candidates which prefer yellow peppers over green ones have be found by our AI to be the more capable receptionists!” /s

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Another thing I see is that I have seen a lot of non-trivial algorithm applications that are now touted as “ai” stuff,

      The underlying problem is that “AI” doesn’t actually exist. It’s a term that has never been used honestly or scientifically. So it can be applied to literally any grift as we’re seeing now.

      The better term would be “advanced information processing algorithms”

      I agree this is a better term. But a problem is that more accurate/scientific terminology is less suitable for grifting and thus will never catch on.

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      Those algorithms were collectively referred to as AI long before gen AI existed. It is gen AI that is riding on classical AIs name.

      • 5190tent@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Most generative AI isnt even artificial intelligence by definition. Technically most of it falls under deep learning or machine learning. But that doesn’t sound as marketable as pretending chat bots are intelligent now.