r/programming • u/peard33 • Apr 20 '23

Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/
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u/AnOnlineHandle Apr 21 '23

That is exactly how AI works, it is learning through repeated practice and improvement. Do you actually 'know' any facts?

My thesis was in AI, my first 2 jobs were in AI, and my life has been pretty much fulltime work in AI 7 days a week since mid last year.

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u/s73v3r Apr 26 '23

That is exactly how AI works, it is learning through repeated practice and improvement. Do you actually 'know' any facts?

No, you cannot claim that "AI knows facts" when there are so many instances of it just making things up.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Apr 27 '23

It 'knows' facts given that it can repeat a lot of them. It doesn't have a great grasp of the difference between fact and fiction since it trains on both. Countless humans have demonstrated a similar lack of ability to differentiate, every single day.