Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing at warp speed - A bit nerdy but I think you'll be amazed
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May 2024
9:30am, 16 May 2024
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Ultracat
Not understanding or read the arguments here but „Can the use of AI help achieve a fully closed loop insulin delivery, ie help people with diabetes so they do not have to count carbs or tell their insulin pump they have eaten a meal. Would be very nice if it can |
May 2024
9:39am, 16 May 2024
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Big_G
I remember back in 1995 as a first year Uni student, one of courses was AI although I forget the language we used now (I think it was Aion?), but basically it was just a load of IF statements and modules that were triggered if certain conditions were met. It was very disappointing, even at the time, and none of us quite understood why the course was called AI. Things have moved on quite a bit since then!
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May 2024
9:41am, 16 May 2024
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Chrisull
LLM ≠ AI. At least not in any meaningful way. It's just pattern recognition and repetition. There's no 'thought' involved ergo no 'intelligence'. 100%. It's a glorified search engine, and last time I looked Altavista and AskJeeves didn't end up running the world. What has shocked me is otherwise intelligent people (eg Max Tegmark) have ended up debating on Twitter why AGI is a serious threat, like AI take over is anything other than a Philip K Dick/Isaac Asimov dystopia. Can the use of AI help achieve a fully closed loop insulin delivery, ie help people with diabetes so they do not have to count carbs or tell their insulin pump they have eaten a meal. Great question and I believe yes, because a) I work adjacent to that area and b) in my company someone I work with has direct experience of this, and has technology that I believe that is partially already doing this!! |
May 2024
9:59am, 16 May 2024
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Cerrertonia
Not sure you really need AI for insulin delivery - you only really need a continuous glucose monitor with the ability to talk to the pump. AI would be more having a camera on someone that was looking at what they actually ate and worked out what it was and the size of the portion and calculating the carb content from that, perhaps by also having observed what had been bought in the shops. I don't work directly on AI, but I do work on designing chips which make it all faster and using less power. I agree with RicheyJames' earlier post, I don't think there's anything intelligent in LLMs. The sheep in my field are intelligent and self-aware; the collection of transistors and software in my Alexa can do all kinds of things that the sheep can't, but it's conceptually just a very sophisticated form of auto-complete on a phone text message. |
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May 2024
1:12pm, 16 May 2024
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Ultracat
They do have CGMs that are linked to insulin pumps but you still need to input level of carbs you are eating. Some closed loop systems are more automatic and advanced that others.
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May 2024
1:45pm, 16 May 2024
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Dave W
So from what I can gather from the above, in simplistic terms that a computer semi-illiterate like me understands, at the moment all AI is is just a fast and focused regurgitation of existing info that it gets from wherever it can. That to me isn't really AI. That's a computer. AI to me is when the computer starts thinking for itself. I.e, it's actually intelligent. Are we at that point yet? |
May 2024
2:09pm, 16 May 2024
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RicheyJames
Spot on Dave W. All these existing models do is recognise stuff they've been trained to recognise and regurgitate associated information. Superficially impressive in controlled demos such as that in the OP but less useful in the real world. Ever noticed, for example, how fully self-driving cars have been 12-18 months away for about a decade? That's largely because 99% of driving is relatively straightforward for these models to replicate but the 1% of edge cases are really, really hard. And it's the 1% that tends to end badly for any humans in the vicinity! |
May 2024
9:19pm, 19 May 2024
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run free
I am seeing companies using AI for their data analysis and the workers are really just trained button pushers as they really don't know how to discern nor explore the "truth".
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May 2024
11:27pm, 20 May 2024
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run free
Dave W wrote: So from what I can gather from the above, in simplistic terms that a computer semi-illiterate like me understands, at the moment all AI is is just a fast and focused regurgitation of existing info that it gets from wherever it can. That to me isn't really AI. That's a computer. AI to me is when the computer starts thinking for itself. I.e, it's actually intelligent. Are we at that point yet? What is the definition of "intelligent"? And what is "thinking for itself"? Is creativity in music and developing new art a form of "thinking for itself". |
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May 2024
11:32pm, 20 May 2024
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run free
The web says a definition of intelligence is "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills" - I think it is already doing that
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