Questions tagged [discussion]
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Which Stack Exchange site is best to ask why a certain AI keeps giving incorrect answers to a very rudimentary type of math question?
I recently asked a search engine a very rudimentary type of math question (not exactly "generate a random 3-digit prime", but somewhat similar to that), and got incorrect answers six ...
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Question about neuralink: uploading dreams to a dream server and sharing them
I wanted to ask this question on the main site but I do not know whether it is appropriate. My question is, what if with people wearing neuralink chips, night, dreams, could be uploaded to a dream ...
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Would an ethical question be on topic about why LLM jailbreaks are bad but googling the same info is somehow fine?
While reading the help center for this community, I see that questions about ethics and AI can be on topic, but it links to the Philosophy community as a point of reference... which is a little ...
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Are questions about the prerequisites for textbooks on topic?
I'd like to read a somewhat older book (mid 1990s) about genetic algorithms and I would like to know what knowledge and skills it assumes from readers. I probably wouldn't worry about this if I had a ...
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Make learning-theory the main tag and statistical-learning-theory and computational-learning-theoy synomyms
We have the tag computational-learning-theory, but we don't have any statistical-learning-theory tag. Right now, learning-theory is a synonym of computational-learning-theory. Given that the ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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Aren't the Data Science community and Artifical intellegence about the same topic?
Aren't the Data Science community and this about the same topic? Why do not we merge it?
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In a question, is it ok to copy text from external sources without acknowledging it?
This post How to determine the number of support vectors contains some text that was clearly copied from some external source. You can search for it on the web and you will actually find multiple ...
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Make prompt-engineering a synonym of prompt-design
Some people may differentiate the 2, but they are often used interchangeably. I'd just make them synonymous. I can't do that directly myself. Currently, only prompt-design exists.
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Is a user allowed to upvote all the questions they answer to so that they become hot questions?
In principle, I don't see why one would not be allowed to upvote or downvote whatever they want. However, what if this is done in order to try to get all the questions, which you answer to, a hot ...
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Should we hold new moderator elections?
We elected a new moderator more than 1 year ago. However, this moderator is rarely active and the last time he was active on the site was more than 1 month ago and this has happened several times, I'...
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Are "what's the SOTA for X" questions on-topic or off-topic?
SOTA = state of the art I read: It was more like asking for reviews / recommendations to choose between two products, which is not directly about explaining any AI fundamentals, and also highly ...
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Why are there so many open questions about pre-trained models?
I've just learned there exits this following closed reason: This post is about specific software, hardware, datasets, or pre-trained models. So why are there so many open questions about pre-trained ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...
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Google Cloud will be Sponsoring AI SE
Update October 2, 2025 The site sponsorship has been extended through December 31, 2025 and is visible to users in the US, Canada and UK. Update July 7, 2025 The site sponsorship has been extended ...
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