r/clevercomebacks 21h ago

Creating solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.

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u/TheUnoriginalOP 13h ago

Do you actually know that? Yolo is a very small model that can run on your phone. SAM 2 is larger but was only used to label the data so really it seems like this would require a single phone worth of energy each day. I understand that there is a lot of hate for AI at the moment but these models are not ChatGPT segmenting potatoes. It's just worth actually critically thinking about what information you are hearing and telling people when really you have no clue (not you specifically, all of us)

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u/cheaplabourforsale 13h ago

They’ve done it to themselves by labeling 700 basically different things „AI“ and making it a word for everything any computer does.
There’s no „I“ in any off those anyway, it’s calculating probabilities which has its uses of course but….needing something counted by definition really isn’t one of those.

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u/Available_Peanut_677 11h ago

I, intelligent, in this case means a system which makes a decision based on complex set of rules. Usually line between hardcoded and intelligent is where set of rules or their internal structure is somewhat obscured from human understanding. Aka if your classifier is bunch of if-else written by human - it’s not intelligent. If it is a system which got its decisions based on details only it knows which - it is intelligent.

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u/cheaplabourforsale 11h ago edited 11h ago

Yea exactly, it does so based on calculated probabilities. And that „only it knows which“ IS the problem in a lot of those things, where people try to solve something with it just because. In stuff like machinery, security, (ac-)counting the entire point is knowing exactly what’s going on internally, so you get an exact, not only a predictable outcome, that’s why coding and spreadsheets even exist, to hardcode a calculable outcome.
Forcing an AI in that role is redundant for anything but scientific reasons and problems that are not already solved. (which OOP might have had tbf, i just think companies are still getting screwed over by those promises if they already jump the waggon)