• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    He is writing about LLM mainly, and that is absolutely AI, it’s just not strong AI or general AI (AGI).
    You can’t invent your own meaning for existing established terms.

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      16 hours ago

      LLMs are AI in the same way that the lane assist on my car is AI. Tech companies, however, very carefully and deliberately play up LLMs as being AGI or close to it. See for example toe convenient fear-mongering over the “risks” of AI, as though ChatGPT will become Skynet.

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        2 hours ago

        LLMs are AI as it is defined in Computer Science, not SciFi. And the lane assist on your car might also be, although it may just be a well tuned PID for all I know.

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          48 minutes ago

          I agree, but the problem is that the media (encouraged by tech companies) use the sci-fi definition, and the layman doesn’t know any better.

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        15 hours ago

        You should research the definition of AI then. Even the A* pathfinding algorithm was historically considered AI. It’s a remarkably broad field.