• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    Generative AI is a meaningless buzzword for the same underlying technology

    What? An AI that can “detect repirstory ilnesses in xrays and MRI scans” is not generative. It does not generate anything. It’s a discriminative AI. Sure, the theories behind these technologies have many things is common - but I wouldn’t call them “the same underlying technology”.

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      It is litterally the exact same technology. If i wanted to i could turn our xray product into a image generator in less than a day.

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        Because they are both computers and you can install different (GPU-bound) software on them?

        It’s true that generative AI is uses discriminative models behind the scenes, but the layer needed on top of that is enough to classify it as a different technology.