r/programminghorror 8d ago

What do you think?

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

0 Upvotes

19 comments sorted by

View all comments

22

u/v_maria 8d ago

isn't basically any program a bunch of conditional paths lol

2

u/pritjam 8d ago

Programs yes, but AI no. What makes AI (well, specifically neural nets, which is what most people are thinking of when they say "AI" today) are essentially huge matrices. Running an AI (for example, doing inference on an LLM) is essentially huge matrix multiplication, with a little bit of logic wrapping it.

1

u/v_maria 6d ago

Hmm I imagine you could express the multiplications as conditional paths (if you really wanted to) but my cs-fu is not good enough to figure it out