You’re absolutely right, but you also need to accept that most people think ai means transformers (as in, LLMs and generative/image synthesis)

It sucks, but that’s how language works unfortunately. How most people use a word ends up defining it.

Recommendation systems, search and ranking algorithms, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, audio noise reduction, predictive analytics, forecasting models, fraud detection, anomaly detection, robotics control systems, self-driving path planning, robot navigation and mapping (SLAM), reinforcement-learning agents, game-playing AI, warehouse optimization, dynamic pricing models, object detection, face recognition, license-plate recognition, medical image analysis, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, spam detection, classic machine-translation models, personalization engines, matching algorithms, logistics route optimization, scheduling algorithms, resource allocation models, algorithmic trading bots, risk scoring, market-making AI, healthcare diagnostics, disease-risk prediction, protein-folding models, music analysis, beat detection, autonomous drone navigation, industrial monitoring, and smart-traffic systems.

Valve understands that sometimes less is more

Friendly reminder that China isn’t a country, it’s a region. PRC is a country. And follow-up reminder that India is absolutely not properly allied with the USA, and China and India’s wars had nothing to do with the USA.

Free Tibet!

It’s personal and private and children shouldn’t be exposed to it. It’s not wrong, and you can do it, but keep it away from me and mine.

Lots of indie games yes, but not so many of the AAAs

Money, I guess. GabeN needed a new yatch

Zero sympathy for anybody who owns investment properties. Zero sympathy for landlords.

Highly skilled locals, too. Anecdotal, but all of the smartest people I graduated university with have left. It’s a lot easier to land 400k salaries outside of Canada.