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No thanks! I decided when I switched to lemmy I was gonna avoid politics communities.

Alright then, welcome! Just this once, though, next time try one of the casual convo communities.

Edit: Whoops, my bad, that’s where we are, nvm, you’re totally appropriate.

I only know like three songs

and if you asked a question just so you could share something, that’s kinda bad form; there’s other communities for sharing E: thought we were on an Ask muni, my bad

“Girlfriend” was her best track but “Complicated” was the base for one of Weird Al’s very best parodies, sooooo

I attended the University of Chicago Folk Festival as I do every year and came home with a larger then usually stack of albums from the artists.

Livestream available for anyone who wants to check it out.

yes, I’m blind without my glasses anyway

I hope that I’m understanding you correctly: You’re asserting that I, as a computer scientist, am using the term “artificial intelligence” as technical jargon, while the common public uses it a different way.

I will accede this point. However, it is, in fact, a CS term and that’s that appropriate way to use it. The public is wrong and I’m not interested in using the term their way instead of the technical way.

This is a very recent phenomenon.

I assure you, it very much is. Two decades ago when I was a student specializing in AI, it was the next big “unsolved problem” alongside computer vision. Five years later, it was solved and the world moved on.

But it remains an application of artificial intelligence.

Some people think of AI as a human-like mind running on a computer. That’s science fiction. AI in real life takes in information and makes decisions in a much smaller arena. “Does this photo contain a face?” “Does this X-ray contain a tumor?” “Given this game board and list of previous move, what’s the winning strategy?” They’re intelligent about only one subject.

I started to write more, but this is long enough. Not every AI is an AGI. Not every AI is linguistic. Most of them are mundane and boring, in fact.

I disagree in the strongest possible terms. Next you’ll be saying speech-to-text isn’t AI.

You know there’s other types of AI, right?

Attending and supporting North America’s oldest annual folk music festival, as I’ve done for the last twenty-plus years.

Edit: I had to remove the direct hyperlink, as lemmy is doing some kind of format to it that keeps breaking the address but it’s the University of Chicago Folk Festival.

Don’t wanna make the frame too heavy during the commute

phones with curly cords

English natively and Spanish as a second language. Those I use every day. I can read and write Latin which I use a few times a week, and know a few words and phrases in Japanese, Lakota, French, German, and Italian.

If I were to learn a fourth language I’d prefer Lakota or Gaelic, but French would be the most useful to me and Italian or Romanian the best combination of use and ease.

Not many these days, barely one a week.

What did you think it meant?

how were you misusing them?

You know mods can’t shadowban you, right?

I have a flyer for an event that my highschool crush gave me and I jokingly told her I’d treasure it forever.

I guess I’m just not a guy who can go back on a promise like that.