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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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AI has a very broad definition. Their products are AI.
But even so- surely you don't believe that Generative AI programs and Hal 9000 are functionally identical? I just think it would be helpful to have a word that doesn't lump those things together.
Well, according to the broad definition, a Google search or recommendation systems like those on Netflix or Instagram would also be considered AI. And we don't call them that, but rather by their proper name.
And language shouldn't be underestimated. It has a profound impact on our thinking, feeling, and actions. Many people associate AI with intelligence and "human thinking". That alone is enough to mislead many, because the usefulness of the technology in a given application is no longer questioned. After all, it's "intelligent". However, when "LLM" is used, a lot more people wouldn't grant it intelligence or one might be more inclined to ask whether a language model, for example in Excel, is truly useful. After all, that's exactly what it is: a model of our language. Not more, not less.
i have seen people do
Yes, correct.
Why would any honest person agree to promote this kind of garbage disinformation? There is nothing "intelligent" about a search engine or any other computer program. These lies are a huge part of the problem.
Just because a lie has become a "definition" to some people that doesn't make it the truth.
search engines are definitely more intelligent than the video game AI i have seen
It is not a lie but a widely accepted and agreed on definition that precedes LLMs by years, and had been created by people way smarter then you and I combined, and who have spent more time in AI research than most people here.
An LLM is an ANI (artificial narrow intelligence), and any ANI is an AI, the broader term for any artificial intelligence. An ANI operates not on intelligence as a human intelligence, its intelligence is a set of rules. A search engine algorithm is a set of rules. Your phone's keyboard is a set of rules. T9 typing on your old Nokia is a set of rules and can be classified as an ANI. An LLM has rules how it spits out the next token.
There is no universal definition of AI, because we would need to have a universal definition of human intelligence for that first. Since there is no single universal definition, it's free for you to disagree on that definition. But calling it disinformation, that no computer program is intelligent, or a lie is simply wrong.
Nah, it is just correct.
Well said! Echos my feelings exactly.
Even more so... It has no definition. It's fake. It's a phony term used by grifters. It's not helpful at all to encourage them and participate.
Nah, words actually don't stop having definitions just because you are upset about them, and LLMs do appropriately fall within its real definition.
Perhaps educate yourself before commenting on things you do not understand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence The problem here is that you have confused AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) with AI (Artificial Intelligence).