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[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Focal@pawb.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

My pet theory is that Apple started to use that term because "App" can also be short for "Apple".

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

I will die on the hill of calling them computer programs.

[-] Focal@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Same. It's like the one thing where I am a total boomer on

[-] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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!"

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

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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