What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

(Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

  • Hawke@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 hours ago

    The self-driving cars are not hatred of AI. Nobody* cares that they use machine-learning to enable the cars to drive themselves.

    It’s not hatred of AI there.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 hours ago

      It’s not hatred of AI there.

      I still disagree, but let me create another hypothetical example that may highlight where we might disagreement further:

      What if Deep Learning (not Gen AI) was used in missile guidance systems specifically to aim toward “people shaped targets”? Would the hate be for AI or just for missiles? If missiles is your answer, where is the distinction in your mind between that and the self-driving cars example?

      • naught101@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 hours ago

        GenAI being used in missile guidance makes zero sense - the technology is not applicable there, because you need precision and reliability. Normal AI, sure.

      • Hawke@lemmy.world
        1·
        18 hours ago

        There is no relevant distinction.

        I hate missiles for the damage they do regardless of the technology used to point them at the target.

        I hate cars for the damage they do regardless of the technology used to point them at the target.

        There’s a difference of intent (missiles get aimed at people while self driving cars hopefully get aimed away from people).

        There’s a difference of failure modes (when a self-driving car fails it will often hit a person while a failing missile will miss a person).

        But theres no reason to hate machine-learning for that, any more there is a reason to hate gyroscopes or lidar or other tools which are also used in guidance systems.

        If someone had decided that a simple accelerometer were “good enough” to unleash self-driving cars on the general public without consideration for the damage caused, people would be upset and rightly so, but not because of the specific technology itself.

        Edit: changed AI to “machine-learning”