We’re already using AI more than we realize

How artificial intelligence hides in plain sight.

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We're living through an inflection point for artificial intelligence: From generated images and video to advanced personal assistants, a new frontier of technologies promises to fundamentally change how we live, work, and play. And yet for all the buzz and concerns about how AI will change the world, in many ways, it already has.

From spam filters and sentence suggestions in our email inboxes to voice assistants and fitness tracking built into our phones, countless machine learning tools have quietly weaved their way into our everyday lives. But when we're surveyed about which everyday technologies use artificial intelligence and which don't, we aren't particularly good at knowing the difference. Does that matter?

[snipe]

I chuckled when this video about AI was sponsered by Copilot 😂

[raytsh]

3:25. There is deep learning with labeled/structured data sets, it's supervised learning. With "trained on unlabeled/unstructured data" you are probably referring to unsupervised learning. Both paradigms can be deep learning though. Deep learning does not necessarily mean unsupervised learning (training on unlabeled/unstructured data sets).

[juliegolick]

I'd be curious as to whether the survey question asked about "all AI, including algorithms" or just "AI". Because in the last year or two, "AI" in common speech refers to "generative AI" like DALL-E and ChatGPT. And if we're talking only about those sorts of generative AIs, then I think people's responses are much more accurate. If we asked people "how often do you interact with algorithms, " I think a lot more people would say "every day."

[LON]

So, I skipped 2 ads to see another ad. Cool.

[marmite]

The definition used for deep learning was instead the definition for unsupervised machine learning and the definition for machine learning used was the definition of supervised machine learning. I'm not sure how this was mixed up but it could have just been left out if it wasn't going to be checked.

[dakotadove.]

predictive keyboards go way further than most people even know. each individual letter’s sensitivity on a digital keyboard changes as it predicts what letter you’re more likely to use next so we make way less typos.

example:
you type want to type the word “back”
when you touch “b” the keyboard knows the next letter is likely to be a vowel so the sensitivity of “a, e, i, o, u” go way up along with letters like “l and r” that usually follow “b” and the really unlikely letters like “q, z, k” that would almost never be next the letter “b” shrink so it’s almost impossible to accidentally type out “bqck”

[ashgreninja]

Video explainer on AI sponsored by Microsoft? Wow award winning and fair journalism

[macroxela]

3:08 that's actually supervised machine learning, not machine learning in general.

3:20 and that is unsupervised machine learning not deep learning. Deep learning is machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to learn. It may or may not used data that has been classified by humans (supervised or unsupervised). Machine learning is just applying statistics with computers to learn patterns from data.

The definition of artificial intelligence though is pretty spot on. It's mainly an umbrella term for techniques and problems researchers don't know where to place. My old algorithms professor summarized it quite well: "AI is whatever humans can do but we haven't figured out how to make computers do it. Once we figured it out, it just becomes a part of algorithms or some other known field."

[monkeyfish]

I mean, how many are aware that we interact all the time with Nginx, JS or cpu/gpu? It's just not a thing for normal people to know, and I wonder if we (the people) need to know what AI is, rather than just knowing the benefits like people are already experiencing. Sure there are concerns with the ability of AI, but I wonder if that is a thing for most people to be concerned of when other topics related that doesn't take their interest already. Without a proper understanding of AI or assuming that LLM are the dangerous AI they are talking about, makes a proper discussions even harder.

[antigonemerlin]

If you aren't familiar with Karen Hao's coverage of AI in _the Atlantic_, I'd seriously recommend you go check it out. It's very accessible coverage about the issue that goes more depth than this video. Props to having her on.

[neatodd]

What I really want is an AI that will filter out background music from Youtube videos

[dosadoodle]

Many tech folks, including myself, would get this "wrong" on individual scenarios, because this type of analysis conflates "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and "Machine Learning (ML)" which many of us view as different. Companies also like to say that their ML is AI because then their stock goes

[TheStickCollector]

It is hard to think how many ais are not public

[JoaoBarbosa]

Feels like a good chunck of these things are only categorized as "AI" for buzzword sake

[savagepro]

Vox: " We’re already using AI more than we realize "
AI: "Uh, I've already been using you, more than you realize. Case in point, I made you declare the above statement . . . wink!"

[racecarrik]

I realized this the other day when I was filling out an application and my computer filled out most of it for me. Older people had to do all that by hand and now my computer just remembers it and auto inputs it in the right fields, human progress 🤙

[vitoc]

"Microsoft does not influence the editorial content of our videos"

There is no A.I. In Ba Sing Se

[DavidMackenzie]

The algorithms the Prime Video and Netflix use to recommend films to me are useless. Either they do "you like horror films, here's 20 horror films. Or this actor was in a film you liked here's loads more". Neither of these demonstrate "intelligence". I long for the day they recommend something based on the content of the media I watch!

[antigonemerlin]

I've said this for a long time, but the flashy parts of consumer grade AI is just a distraction. The big changes are going to come from AI being used by Palantir and behind the scenes.

[CallMeRabbitzUSVI]

The problem isn't the other "Ai's" like a fitness tracker algorithm or the lot. The problem is Generate Ai, and how it sbeing used to undermine the workers and our own humanity.