Fuck AI

No, I think the distinction is already made and there are words for that. Adding additional terms like "generators" or "pretend intelligence" does not help in creating clarity. In my opinion, the current definitions/classifications are enough. I get Stallman's point, and his definition of intelligence seems to be different from how I would define intelligence, which is probably the main disagreement.

I definitely would call a LLM intelligent. Even though it does not understand the context like a human could do, it is intelligent enough to create an answer that is correct. Doing this by basically pure stochastics is pretty intelligent in my books. My car's driving assistant, even if it's not fully self driving, is pretty damn intelligent and understands the situation I'm in, adapting speed, understanding signs, reacting to what other drivers do. I definitely would call that intelligent. Is it human-like intelligence? Absolutely not. But for this specific, narrow use-case it does work pretty damn good.

His main point seems to be breaking the hype, but I do not think that it will or can be achieved like that. This will not convince the tech bros or investors. People who are simply uninformed, will not understand an even more abstract concept.

In my opinion, we should educate people more on where the hype is actually coming from: NVIDIA. Personally, I hate Jensen Huang, but he's been doing a terrific job as a CEO for NVIDIA, unfortunately. They've positioned themselves as a hardware supplier and infrastructure layer for the core component for AI, and are investing/partnering widely into AI providers, hyperscalers, other component suppliers in a circle of cashflow. Any investment they do, they get back multiplied, which also boosts all other related entities. The only thing that went "10x" as promised by AI is NVIDIA stock. They are bringing capex to a whole new level currently.

And that's what we should be discussing more, instead of clinging to words. Every word that any company claims about AI should automatically be assumed to be a lie, especially for any AI claim from any hyperscaler, AI provider, hardware supplier, and especially-especially from NVIDIA. Every single claim they do directly relates to revenue. Every positive claim is revenue. Every negative word is loss. In this circle of money they are running - we're talking about thousands of billions USD. People have done way worse, for way less money.