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by dist-epoch 384 days ago
Funny, I don't remember any computer program in the past being able to explain a news article through the lens of one particular philosopher.

Or being able to explain the static physical forces in a picture that are keeping a structure from collapsing.

Or recommend me a python library which does X, Y and Z with constraints A, B and C.

But I guess you can file all the above under "data analysis".
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GuinansEyebrows 384 days ago
it is the result of data analysis. the computer program isn't explaining anything, or recommending anything. it's simply presenting the results of querying data analyzed at scale and returning the "most likely" result (as determined by the system prompt and human input from developers and users of the program). "most likely" is still a super-fuzzy grey area.

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/computers-c...

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keybrd-intrrpt 384 days ago
It's all just electricity and binary bits, nothing new here...

/s?

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