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- on First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery: The first use of AI to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
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on First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery: The first use of AI to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Bingo. Too many people hear “AI” and think it means “AGI” (like Skynet) when really it means plain old machine learning like we’ve been doing for decades.
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on First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery: The first use of AI to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I don’t disagree with this as a statement of the strategy the broligarchs are employing (that’s the “burning our world” bit), but my point is purely about the technology itself, and how batshit insane it is to try and maintain one kind of ML is not really ML because icky. All the “AI” that people hate on so blindly is a lot more than image and text generation, but it’s all Machine Learning.
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on First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery: The first use of AI to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
machine learning
Uh… What exactly do you think LLMs are? Christ, people will jump through any hoop to delineate “thing I hate” from “thing I hate but is too useful so I must find a way that it’s different so I can like it”.
Machine learning, including LLMs, are a technology. They are a tool, and can be used for good or ill. All this hatred towards the technology, instead of the salesmen burning our world over it, baffles me.
Do you know what I used AI for the other day? I wanted to try a new store so I booted up my local AI and I had it search for whether the owners have donated to anyone or anything I’d consider a problem. It looked through news stories, the website and wayback machine, public FEC filings, and on and on. In a matter of minutes I had a pretty comprehensive report and was good to go about my day, decision on relatively sound data in hand. Without AI, I’d have spent several times as long and not found half as much… Or, I just wouldn’t have checked at all.
It’s a technology, and its useful. It saved a man’s sight, here, and it’s researching new compounds to save more lives. It’s also being used for war, and crime, and a lot of research was done unethically. But it’s okay to like the good things it’s used for, because a lot of people are using it to help.
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on [AIP] Homedex: a self-hosted inventory that writes your homelab's documentation from Docker and your reverse proxy in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Were you aware, you didn’t need to comment and didn’t add anything to the discussion by doing so?
As well, I’d like to highlight the sheer arrogance of demanding someone else build it how you want, when:
- The project is right here for you to try, and
- Build it yourself.
That second one is what makes open source great.
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on I'm so sick of corporate greed in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
They would if they knew, but they missed the announcement because they don’t have Netflix.
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on U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
I guess turnabout is fair play.
(Stuxnet was an advanced collection of zero-day exploits built by Israel and the US that led to Iranian centrifuges, made by Siemens, slowly dismantling themselves during operation. It worked by altering machine operating parameters for faster wear, it was meant to bring Iran’s nuclear program to its knees)
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on Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50% in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Sometimes, a flight that passes through the place you’re going is cheaper than a flight that ends there. Skiplagged’s real power is finding those flights for you. Much harder to do it manually.
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on Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50% in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I use Skiplagged all the time. Never noticed any penalties. A while back I started calling the airline’s customer service to let them know that I won’t make the next leg of my flight, just to be courteous so there’s no chance they’re waiting on me if everyone else is boarded early; once or twice that’s actually even resulted in a partial refund.
I believe you’ll find I said
Because LLMs are a subset of ML models. I never said all ML is LLMs, but the person I’m responding to doesn’t seem to understand that LLMs are trained via Machine Learning. Thanks for the misplaced condescension though, looks real good on you.