• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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      I particularly “Love” that a bunch of like, procedural generation and search things that have existed for years are now calling themselves “AI” (without having changed in any way) because marketing.

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        Reminds me of how everything on a computer used to be a “program”, but now they’re all just “apps”

      • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
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        I read a story on CBC the other day that was all about how an AI voice was taking over from hosts on off-hours at some local radio station, then deeper in the article it revealed that everything the “AI” reads was written by a human. So it was about someone using text-to-speech technology that has been around since at least the 70s the whole time. Hardly newsworthy in any way except for “IT’S AI!”

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          Mind you there -are- TTS tools that use machine learning (which is what advertisers call “AI” now) for more realistic voices. No idea if the radio was using those at all though.

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      Oh man this one drives me up the wall too.

      Someone literally with a straight face said how cool Minecraft has AI generated worlds and I wanted to flip a table.