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highplainsdem

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1. IMPORTANT NOTE - the type of AI used for this was NOT generative AI, and in no way is an argument

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 03:19 PM

4 hrs ago

for hallucinating generative AI trained on stolen intellectual property.

I need to bring this up because the AI bros behind the genAI industry like to pretend genAI must be encouraged if we want the advances from other types of AI in science and medicine. And that simply isn't true.

From the link in the OP:

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-coastal-cities-america-front-line.html

The pair drew historical records of past flood damage and examined 16 factors. They fed all this data into three different types of AI (Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer Perceptron) to identify which cities are at the greatest risk and why.

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These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why [View all] erronis 7 hrs ago OP

IMPORTANT NOTE - the type of AI used for this was NOT generative AI, and in no way is an argument highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #1

Thanks for the clarification. Another way of saying this: "advanced statistical models". erronis 3 hrs ago #2

doh! knew that already. NYC subways will soon be useless msongs 2 hrs ago #3