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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
I donāt know if this is the right place to ask, but a friend from the field is wondering if there are any examples of good AI companies out there? With AI not meaning LLM companies. Thanks!
sounds a bit of a xy question imo, and a good answer of examples would depend on the y part of the question, the whatever it is that (if my guess is right) your friend is actually looking to know/find
āAIā is branding, a marketing thing that a cadaverous swarm of ghouls got behind in the upswing of the slop wave (you can trace this by checking popularity of the term in the months after deepdream), a banner with which to claim to be doing something new, a ānew handleā to use to try anchor anew in the imaginations of many people who were (by normal and natural humanity) not yet aware of all the theft and exploitation. this was not by accident
there are a fair of good machine learning systems and companies out there (and by dint of hype and market forces, some end up sticking the āAIā label on their products, because thatās just how this deeply fucked capitalist market incentivises). as other posters have said, medical technology has seen some good uses, thereās things like recommender[0] and mass-analysis system improvements, and Iāve seen the same in process environments[1]. thereās even a lot of āquiet and usefulā forms of this that have been getting added to many daily use systems and products all around us: reasonably good text extractors as a baseline feature in pdf and image viewers, subject matchers to find pets and friends in photos, that sort of thing. but those donāt get headlines and silly valuation insanity as much of the industry is in the midst of
[0] - not always blanket good, thereās lots of critique possible here
[1] - things like production lines that can use correlative prediction for checking on likely faults
Thanks for the replies, I guess the āgoodā was vague on purpose, to see how people interpret itā¦
This popped up on one of my feeds today and I saved it, canāt remember from where, itās relevant to the above so sharing here: https://oneproject.org/ai-commons/ (AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture).
They talk about AI for good, at some point they mention how the term is sometimes used just for marketing.
The only thing that comes to mind is medical applications, drug research, etc. But that might just be a skewed perspective on my end because I know literally nothing about that industry or how AI technology is deployed there. Iāve just read research has been assisted by those tools and that seems, at least on the surface level, like a good thing.
There are companies doing ācool-soundingā things with AI like Waymo. āGoodā would require more definition.