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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's why I hate the term AI. Say it is a predictive llm or a pattern recognition model.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Say it is a predictive llm

According to the paper cited by the article OP posted, there is no LLM in the model. If I read it correctly, the paper says that it uses PyTorch's implementation of ResNet18, a deep convolutional neural network that isn't specifically designed to work on text. So this term would be inaccurate.

or a pattern recognition model.

Much better term IMO, especially since it uses a convolutional network. But since the article is a news publication, not a serious academic paper, the author knows the term "AI" gets clicks and positive impressions (which is what their job actually is) and we wouldn't be here talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That performance curve seems terrible for any practical use.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's an unacceptably low ROC curve for a medical usecase

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Good catch!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Well, this is very much an application of AI... Having more examples of recent AI development that aren't 'chatgpt'(/transformers-based) is probably a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The correct term is "Computational Statistics"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Stop calling it that, you're scaring the venture capital

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it's a good term, it refers to lots of thinks. there are many terms like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The problem is that it refers to so many and constantly changing things that it doesn't refer to anything specific in the end. You can replace the word "AI" in any sentence with the word "magic" and it basically says the same thing...