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Can we stop calling LLMs for AI yet?
LLMs are AI. But then again, so are mundane algorithms like A* Pathfinding. Artificial Intelligence is an extraordinarily broad field.
Very few, if any, people claim that ChatGPT is “Artificial General Intelligence”, which is what you probably meant.
It’s a meaningless marketing term. It’s used to describe so many different technologies that it has become meaningless. People just use it to give their tech some SciFi vibes.
Sorry but that’s bullshit. You can’t disqualify an entire decades-old field of study because some marketing people used it wrong.
No it’s not. The engineers and researchers calling any tech they made AI is bullshit. It has nothing to do with intelligence. They used it wrong from the very beginning.
Please read up on the history of AI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
You are conflating the modern “deep learning” technique of AI, which has really only existed for a short time, with the entire history of AI development, which has existed for (probably much) longer than you’ve been alive. It’s a very common misconception.
Just because it’s old doesn’t make it true. Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)was established in 1948. Do you think North Korea is democratic just because it’s called that?
Are you telling me that Alan Turing didn’t know what he was talking about?
Allan Turing was a remarkable and talented human being that was clearly very good at what he did. There is nothing in his field of expertise that qualifies him to have a very good understanding of intelligence. I mean even the Turing test is kind of bad at estimating intelligence. LLMs can already pass them and they are not intelligent.
Ah I see the issue. You are conflating Artificial General Intelligence with the entire field of Artificial Intelligence. Very common misconception.
AI is a remarkably broad field that includes but is not limited to AGI. AI is a word used for any function that a computer does that approximates intelligence. That could be as simple as pathfinding, flocking, and balancing, or as complex as object recognition, language, and logic.
I don't understand that argument. We invented a term to describe a certain technology. But you're arguing that this term should not be used to describe such technology, as it should be reserved for another mythical tech that may or may not exist some time in the future. What exactly is your point here?
I think its more the case that its too general, ie 'all humans that died have drank water' type of vibe, except in this case people start thinking their AI is gonna mold with alien technology and have sex with a super hero a-la Jarvis
I don't mean to throw shade but that explanation makes me understand even less. Yes, it is a generic term used to describe a whole array of technologies - is that a bad thing now ? I understand that some people might misunderstand if they don't know much about the subject but isn't that true of all technical terms ?
Perhaps, but it's not a technical term. And it's not the correct term from a technical perspective either.
AI is a pop culture term that has been in use long before practical machine learning or large language models. It already has a known definition which resembles artificial general intelligence or AGI. It is being applied to ML and LLMs for marketing purposes.
It's the term that researchers use, so does that not make it a technical term? It's also the only term we have for describing this line of work and its outputs, so until we have a replacement, it'll continue to be called AI.
That's even richer. So the term AI should be reserved for the future tech that may or may not come to exist, even though that mythical technology already has a perfectly suitable name (AGI) ? That sounds... useful ! But also very interesting, and intellectually stimulating ! After all, who doesn't love those little semantics games ?
AI is a technical term that has been used by researchers and product developers for 50 years, with a fairly consistent definition. I know it hurts because it contradicts your pedestrian opinion on how Big Words should be used, but that's just the way it is. We're not at a point yet where humanity recognizes your legitimacy to decide how words are used.
It's to me intentional misdirection via generality I suppose.
Which I'd attribute to malice considering the amount of money its currently making
Do you have information that any AI company is currently money ? AFAIK all foundational models are still bleeding money and are subsidized by VC money. There is even the distinct possibility that these companies may never be profitable at the current pricing.
You're right in the semantics there, as a whole I can't say many AI companies are net positive, but that's exactly why they have the money to spend on marketing - its really all they got