Stephen 🐈 🇨🇦 on Nostr: nprofile1q…nplrl nprofile1q…z3yuy "Generative AI" is basically what people call ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqgr2fn4agngyk70rqwkg40dtyn2dsqwkjxpz6h2qyuhwfjdcmf6msynplrl (nprofile…plrl) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq8997ud8g3xq04tzxvjmqaw7sjaykuq59rm8d7gyl7m699yrzavxq5z3yuy (nprofile…3yuy) "Generative AI" is basically what people call the current wave of AI to differentiate from neural nets and deep learning which we did before. The name is really stupid because "generating" is not the new part, but ultimately that's the term we've landed on.
New speech recognition technologies, like whisper, definitely fall under the Generative AI umbrella imo. It's got the usual things - huge matrices of weights (hundreds of megs or even gigabytes), tokens, etc. In my experience they work far better than anything before, and they have the advantage of being locally-runnable (whereas previously SOTA technologies were in the cloud). I have not looked into VLC's implementation but I suspect they're using one of these technologies, which would explain why they called it AI.
I think the biggest problem is that "Generative AI" is much too big of an umbrella to be able to say everything under it is bad/unethical/stupid/whatever. To me it's a bit like trying to take a moral stand against matrix multiplication.
There are a ton of use-cases where "Generative AI" makes me roll my eyes, but I think there are also cases where it may make sense. VLC is probably a good example of this
New speech recognition technologies, like whisper, definitely fall under the Generative AI umbrella imo. It's got the usual things - huge matrices of weights (hundreds of megs or even gigabytes), tokens, etc. In my experience they work far better than anything before, and they have the advantage of being locally-runnable (whereas previously SOTA technologies were in the cloud). I have not looked into VLC's implementation but I suspect they're using one of these technologies, which would explain why they called it AI.
I think the biggest problem is that "Generative AI" is much too big of an umbrella to be able to say everything under it is bad/unethical/stupid/whatever. To me it's a bit like trying to take a moral stand against matrix multiplication.
There are a ton of use-cases where "Generative AI" makes me roll my eyes, but I think there are also cases where it may make sense. VLC is probably a good example of this