Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI (Artificial Intelligence)?
Real AI does not exist yet,
atm we only have LLMs (Large Language Models),
which do not think on their own,
but pass turing tests
(fool humans into thinking that they can think).
Imo AI is just a marketing buzzword,
created by rich capitalistic a-holes,
who already invested in LLM stocks,
and now are looking for a profit.
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The term “Fuzzy logic” has apparently been around since 1965, can’t keep calling it that… not that all AI falls under that but a lot of what gets marketed as that would.
I’ll be direct, your texts reads like you only just discovered AI. We have much more than “only LLMs”, regardless of whether or not these other models pass turing tests. If you feel disgruntled, then imagine what people who’ve been researching AI since the 70s feel like…
Maybe just accept it as shorthand for what it really means.
Some examples:
We say Kleenex instead of facial tissue, Band-Aid instead of bandage, I say that Siri butchered my “ducking” text again when I know autocorrect is technically separate.
We also say, “hang up on someone” when there is no such thing anymore
Hell, we say “cloud” when we really mean “someone’s server farm”
Don’t get me started on “software as a service” too …a bullshit fancy name for a subscription website that actually has some utility.
Every website now is just HTMLaaS
I’m pissed that large corps are working hard on propaganda to say that LLMs and theft of copyright is good if they do it
I remember being upset about the exact same thing when 4G first launched.
Hey me too. I gave up though.
Businesses always do this. AI is popular? Insert that word into every page of the deck. It sucks.
Yeah real AI doesnt exist and we are not even close. But marketing is powerful. We should be saying language models.
AI is simply a broad field of research and a broad class of algorithms. It is annoying media keeps using the most general term possible to describe chatbots and image generators though. Like, we typically don’t call Spotify playlist generators AI, even though they use recommendation algorithms, which are a subclass of AI algorithms.
I think most people consider LLMs to be real AI, myself included. It’s not AGI, if that’s what you mean, but it is AI.
What exactly is the difference between being able to reliably fool someone into thinking that you can think, and actually being able to think? And how could we, as outside observers, be able to tell the difference?
Maybe I’m just a little bit too familiar with it, but I don’t find LLMs particularly convincing of anything I would call “real AI”. But I suppose that entirely depends on what you mean with “real”. Their flaws are painfully obvious. I even use ChatGPT 4 in hopes of it being better.
You’re a fool if you think your own mind is any more than a large language model.
LLMs are AI. Lots of things are. They’re just not AGI.
It’s a very loaded term and seems to imply AGI for many.
I’m willing to bet that thise people didn’t know anything about AI until a few years ago and only see it as this latest wave.
I did AI courses in college 25 years ago, and there were all kinds of algorithms. Neural networks were one of them, but there were many others. And way before that, like others have said, it’s been used for simulated agents in games.
I have no idea what makes them say LLMs are not AIs. These are definetely simulated neurons in the background.
Right? Computer opponents in Starcraft are AI. Nobody sane is arguing it isn’t. It just isn’t GAI nor is it even based on neural networking. But it’s still AI.
When I was doing my applied math PhD, the vast majority of people in my discipline used either “machine learning”, “statistical learning”, “deep learning”, but almost never “AI” (at least not in a paper or a conference). Once I finished my PhD and took on my first quant job at a bank, management insisted that I should use the word AI more in my communications. I make a neural network that simply interpolates between prices? That’s AI.
The point is that top management and shareholders don’t want the accurate terminology, they want to hear that you’re implementing AI and that the company is investing in it, because that’s what pumps the company’s stock as long as we’re in the current AI bubble.
LOL, ask anyone in IT marketing how they feel about AI.
I think LLMs are definitely “AI” in that their intelligence is artificial. If an AI in a game can be called an “AI”, then LLMs like GPT should definitely get the title.
