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		raincole on March 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI hallucinates software packages and devs downloa... People have been calling slightly complicated software "AI" since forever. Actually people did this before software is even a thing.

manojlds on March 28, 2024 [–]

Exactly. GenAI is much closer to AI than whatever people were calling as AI before.

namaria on March 28, 2024 | [–]

It looks like advances in software asymptotically approximate intelligent seeming behavior, and I think we have come as close as at infinity as the human economy can provide energy for.

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