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AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult (cacm.acm.org)
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[–] vanillama@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. I see some good use cases for the tech but the surveillance is obviously disproportionately bad.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah for sure. Facial recognition as used in mass surveillance AFAIK uses very similar machine learning tech you can use quite successfully (AFAIK) to aid diagnostics in medicine, environmental conservationism etc.