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If I could get glasses that told me "that guy enthusiastically greeting you by name right now is Marty, you last met him in university in such-and-such class eight years ago" I would pay any amount of money for that.

"Doxing people" and "recognizing people" have a pretty blurry border.

And yet it's accomplishing those tasks. I guess that means "understanding" wasn't necessary for them after all.

Alright, since you find this such an important issue, consider the first bullet point cropped off of my humorous list of milestones.

Doesn't change the underlying point.

Of course "Innocent people dying" would be the "free" square.

Phone operators weren't call center staff, they were literally routers in human form. Secretaries were your email program, calendar, and your folders full of word documents.

• Computers might be good at numbers and typesetting, but we'll always need human secretaries and phone operators to keep things running.
• They might be able to beat a novice, but no computer will ever beat a human grandmaster at chess.
• Okay, then they can't beat humans at Go or poker.
• Any non-trivial task requiring creativity and understanding is beyond these tools. ← you are here
• AI-run corporations will never be able to outcompete ones with ones with human boards and CEOs.
• An AI scriptwriter could never win an Oscar.
• I'm voting for the human candidate for president, I don't think the AI one is up to the task.

The total market cap across all cryptocurrencies is currently about 2.5 trillion dollars, which isn't far below its all-time high of 3 trillion. If that's something you'd say "hasn't fully died yet" then AI's not going to go away any time soon by that standard.

Whereas I have been finding uses for it to produce things that simply could not have produced myself without it, making it far more than a mere "productivity boost."

I think people are mainly seeing what they want to see.

Words often have multiple meanings in different contexts. "Intelligence" is one of those words.

Another meaning of "Intelligence" is "the collection of information of military or political value." Would you go up to CIA headquarters and try to argue with them that "the collection of information of military or political value" lacks understanding, and therefore they're using the wrong word and should take the "I" out of their name?

Did you check the link I posted? The term "Artificial Intelligence" is literally used for the sorts of topics in computer science that LLMs fall under, and has been for almost 70 years now.

You are the one who is insisting that the meaning of the words should now be changed to something else.

The term AI was coined in 1956 at a computer science conference and was used to refer to a broad range of topics that certainly would include machine learning and neural networks as used in large language models.

I don't get the "it's not really AI" point that keeps being brought up in discussions like this. Are you thinking of AGI, perhaps? That's the sci-fi "artificial person" variety, which LLMs aren't able to manage. But that's just a subset of AI.