#context understanding in AI

[nnctales]

What AI Cannot Do: AI Limitation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made remarkable strides in recent years, revolutionizing industries from healthcare to finance. However, despite its impressive capabilities, there are inherent AI limitation to what it can achieve. Understanding these limitations is crucial for effectively integrating AI into our lives and recognizing its role as a tool rather than a replacement for human…

[commsroom]

as an extension of how hera reads as trans to me, hera/eiffel resonates with me specifically as a relationship between a trans woman and a cis man. loving hera requires eiffel to decentralize his own perspective in a way that ties into both his overall character arc and the themes of the show.

pop culture is baked into the dna of wolf 359, into eiffel’s worldview, and in how it builds off of a sci-fi savvy audience’s assumptions: common character types, plot beats, or dynamics, why would a real person behave this way? how would a real person react to that? eiffel is the “everyman” who assumes himself to be the default. hera is the “AI who is more human than a lot of humans,” but it doesn’t feel patronizing because it isn’t a learned or moral quality; she is a fundamentally human person who is routinely dehumanized and internalizes that.

eiffel/hera as a romance is compelling to me because there is a narrative precedent for some guy/AI or robot woman relationships in a way i think mirrors some attitudes about trans women: it’s a male power fantasy about a subclass of women, or it’s a cautionary tale, or it’s a deconstruction of a power fantasy that criticizes the way men treat women as subservient, as property. but what does that pop culture landscape mean in the context of desire? If you are a regular person, attracted to a regular person, who really does care for you and wants to do right by you, but is deeply saturated in these expectations? how do you navigate that?

I think that, in itself, is an aspect of communication worth exploring. sometimes you won’t get it. sometimes you can’t. and that’s not irreconcilable, either. it’s something wolf 359 is keenly aware of, and, crucially, always sides with hera on. eiffel screws up. he says insensitive things without meaning to. often, hera will call him out on it, and he will defer to her. in the one case where he notably doesn’t, the show calls attention to it and makes him reflect. it’s not a coincidence that the opening of shut up and listen has eiffel being particularly dismissive of hera - the microaggression of separating her from “men and women” and the insistence on using his preferred title over hers. there are things eiffel has just never considered before, and caring for hera the way he does means he has to consider them. he's never met someone like hera, but media has given him a lot of preconceptions about what people like her might be like.

there’s a whole other discussion to be had about the gender dynamics of wolf 359, even in the ways the show tries to avoid directly addressing them, and how sexual autonomy in particular can’t fully be disentangled from explorations of AI women. i don’t think eiffel fully recognizes what comments like “wind-up girl” imply, and the show is not prepared to reconcile with it, but it’s interesting to me. in the context of transness (and also considering hera’s disability, two things i think need to be discussed together), i think it’s worth discussing how hera’s self image is at odds with the way people perceive her, her disconnect from physicality, how she can’t be touched by conventional means, and the ways in which eiffel and hera manage to bridge that gap.

even the desire for embodiment, and the autonomy and type of intimacy that comes with it, means something different when it’s something she has to fight for, to acquire, to become accustomed to, rather than a circumstance of her birth. i suppose the reason i don’t care for half measures in discussions re: hera and embodiment is also because, to me, it is in many ways symbolically a discussion about medical transition, and the social fear of what’s “lost” in transition, whether or not those things were even desired in the first place.

hera’s relationship with eiffel is unquestionably the most supportive and equal one she has, but there are still privileges, freedoms, and abilities he has that she doesn’t, and he forgets that sometimes. he will never share her experiences, but he can choose to defer to her, to unlearn his pop culture biases and instead recognize the real person in front of him, and to use his own privilege as a shield to advocate for her. the point, to me - what’s meaningful about it - is that love isn’t about inherent understanding, it’s about willingness to listen, and to communicate. and that’s very much at the heart of the show.

[leahbasavraham]

Ai generated

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Mother Marambionectes helping her calf surface for air

[universalsatan]

Hey bestie, no need to answer this, but I saw u reblogged something from roach - works, and I just wanna let u know that she's a major terf

oh!!! thank you for this fr. i'm answering this bc i just wanna say that i don't have shinigami eyes and i'm on mobile most of the time, so these pointers are much appreciated <33

[pinkrosealice]

Absolutely no personal hate, shade or harassment intended whatsoever, but...... have you ever seen a piece of media analysis/criticism/interpretation that you so vehemently disagree with that it makes you want to rip your own circulatory system out with rusty cutlery?!?!

[daily-klingon]

So I was experimenting with Google Bard and I asked it to translate something into Klingon and it looks kind of accurate so what do you think

Kahless wept. Don't ask the AI for racing tips.

Looking at this now, I am very happy. At least I know my job here is still safe.

[halyorke-vampiredisaster]

Today at work I tried to talk about how the value of art is not in the product but in the sum of the work that went into it (and therefore AI can't replicate it sufficiently just by answering a prompt and generating i.e. a movie in a not so distant future) and my colleague, who I like very much, almost looked at me with pity in her eyes, because apparently the concept was very avantgarde to her

[your-local-squip-fanatic]

Wait a gat-dang minute...

Not two, but THREE stories of mine could theoretically take place in the same universe. Hear me out.

Shatterverse and Lesterverse are already connected due to Lester/Leander being in Shatterverse... Don't Freak Out, Don't Resist could possibly be set in that same world as early seconds drafts of Shatterverse reference SQUIPs when talking about Augustus' REHEM chips used to let him control people. (Something something "these seemed worse than those supercomputer pills from Japan," I'd have to find the exact thing I wrote)

...Guess we doin the Astrid Written Universe/AWU now I guess lol

one day itll be the acu

[apollos-boyfriend]

OH! are we talking about the new multilingual smp dreams trying to pull?

And it's with ai translation?

Bruuuh. Like, idk if this point already been said but the reason that I like studying languages (on the side, although debating putting linguistic anthropology on my course roster) is because there's like. So much there. There's context to words and phrases that you require SO much background knowledge to make a joke funny. A plain ai translation is like, a what a McDonalds cheeseburger is to a Michelin star restaurants seven course meal. There's so much you miss just by virtue of it being fast and convient.

(side note here, I personally find it far more rewarding to look up the meaning behind like jokes and stuff because oftentimes it makes the joke funnier once it lands. Also the pride of having figured it out is nice too, which I think you've mentioned)

To sum it up, it feels, especially after qsmp which I can tell is a labor of love where it seems like most people involved are having a delightful time, really icky. Also, so many languages is bound to make any one translater insanely confused, so good luck to that ai trying to make sense of Candian French through an Academic French filter.

ANY AI translator is bound to struggle just on the basis of being AI, but bringing together so many languages and so many people just brings in more issues. what’s it trained on? how much does it know slang? can it properly encapsulate that meaning? what about words that don’t have translations outside of their language (the portuguese word “saudade”, for example)? what will it do then? can it properly understand people speaking quickly, as native speakers tend to do? there are just so many issues that it’s clear he put no more than .2 seconds of thought into it and just wanted to cash in while he could

[prolibytherium]

im not a fan of AI art that is meant to replicate and replace humanmade illustration but "people are using AI to 'cheat' at art instead of gitting gud" is the absolute least of AI related concerns for me.

[snickerdoodlles]

I know this is so not the point, but every time I see that stupid tiktok screenshot about a person having chatgpt finish an abandoned fic i roll my eyes so hard they fall out of my head because token limits are A Thing and there’s no way that tiktok idiot actually did the thing they’re claiming.

like. this isn’t relevant to the larger issues of consent, copyright concerns, or even basic internet security concerns, but oh my god is it frustrating to see how shit like this contributes to the growing misunderstanding and misinformation about what generative AI is and what it can do, which is already a problem as tech people obscure it behind anthropomorphizing it 🤦‍♂️

[sea-of-machines]

it's crazy how other social media sites are super strict with rules and banning everything while on tumblr you can basically say anything

[asongoftearsandfandoms]

Obviously I'm more than happy to give up all these gimmicky AI searches and assistants and "I'll create your art for you!" Bots.

However, I want to know how deep AI goes. Is the predictive swipe on my phone technically AI? Are grammar checking tools that tell you "hey, did you mean too instead of to?" technically AI? Does the little sensor in my car that screams and asks if I need a break when I drift slightly over a line AI?

Because while I would still probably give it up, I would appreciate knowing what it is I'm giving up.

[satache]

I go to school and take my technology class and be so educated on the technologies just for my prof to email me AI generated images every time I submit work… Epic

[acelessthan3]

I heard that song on TikTok is just I heard that song on MySpace is just I heard that song on the radio is just I heard someone singing that.