• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    Except “heuristics” reveals that it’s a fuzzy, inaccurate shortcut machine and liable to significant problems if you treat its output as undisputed fact. And that means less profits for the boardroom stockholders :(((

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        It’s also a psychology term to refer to how we make fast and inaccurate assumptions to more quickly process the world around us, so yes v much so lol

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      I wonder if this is what machine language programmers used to say to people who used C compilers.

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        There was some of this, but at the end of the day, the C compilers are deterministic, while (hype wave) AI is not.

        Now, I don’t expect any of these new kids using C compilers to understand enough about computer science theory to know what “deterministic” means, of course. (this is sarcasm - computer science is still taught, thankfully)