• StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I’ll definitely read it start to end when I have the time later, for now this is my favourite part of the article (Of the parts I skimmed through):

          “Bullshit generators” is a suitable term for large language models (“LLMs”) such as ChatGPT, that generate smooth-sounding verbiage that appears to assert things about the world, without understanding that verbiage semantically.

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    2 months ago

    I also hate the way “algorithm” has taken over the public consciousness. You can find people unironically saying “I don’t want any algorithm in my social media feed”, which is a nonsensical statement.

  • Sculptus Poe@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I fought hard against that for years. I still only use ‘app’ for phone programs, but I stopped correcting people every time they used the term for anything else. It isn’t technically wrong, but it grates on my nerves for some reason.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Windows is the first thing I can think of that used the word “application” in that way, I think even back before Windows could be considered an OS (and had a dependency on MS-DOS). Back then, the Windows API referred to the Application Programming Interface.

      Here’s a Windows 3.1 programming guide from 1992 that freely refers to programs as applications:

      Common dialog boxes make it easier for you to develop applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system. A common dialog box is a dialog box that an application displays by calling a single function rather than by creating a dialog box procedure and a resource file containing a dialog box template.