Artificial intelligence is a term used in computer science to describe a system capable of performing any cognitive tasks that would normally require human intelligence - like generating natural-sounding language. The issue isn’t that the term is being used incorrectly, but rather that most people think it means more than it actually does. It’s a broad term that covers everything from old Atari chess engines to artificial superintelligence.
The problem is people think llm AI means it’s thinking, when it’s obviously not. Thus: “llms are not ai” is said so people will hopefully stop thinking the llms are thinking.
If AI was able to actually think, it wouldn’t even need your input to feed it thoughts from you to respond. It’d probably just talk right away and accurately assume it knows what you want.
AI is just simply an over-glorified piece of tech that is placed in things when humans are incapable of doing it themselves and doing it as efficiently as possible. Like reading anything in microseconds.
Marketing and pr pressure to be able to use the term “Ai” because it’s the current hype. Everything is now Ai. It’s now a meaningless term. Image processing, data calculations, language interpretation, language generation, all claim to be Ai. If your product has Ai it now tells me nothing about what it does.
Artificial intelligence is a term used in computer science
Arguing that because nerds appropriated an original term does not mean that we have to change the meaning of the original term…
I don’t look out my “transpart glass” I look out my windows. Even tho that’s the name of an operating system. If I say I grok something, it means I understand like Heinlen intended, not that I asked a racist AI about it.
“Artificial Intelligence” and all sorts of things computer nerds are trying to claim they invented have existed in theory at least as far back as Rome.
So “the problem” is you first heard about it in the context of chatbots, so now you want to insist that is the only meaning the phrase has ever represented and everyone else needs to change to accomdoate you.
The problem isn’t people are using the phrase wrong, the problem is you don’t know what it means except in a very narrow context.
None of any of this shit is new, people are just ignorant.
It’s like when I was a kid and watched pro-wrestling, I thought I was cool and original, because I didn’t know the media that they were blatantly ripping off of.
That’s where you are at right now with Artificial Intelligence, you only know the version the grifters have appropriated.
Pre-emptive edit:
I’m not saying chatbots are AI, I’m saying the definition that calls them AI is incorrect because grifters just changed it to fit what they were doing, for money.
First, that actually is how language works. Meaning is given to words by consensus and consensus alone. Generally, since it came to widespread usage in the modern lexicon it means exactly as they described.
Second, you say it was appropriated. Okay, from what?
You say that like computer scientists in the 1950s who invented the concept of AI stole it from science fiction writers instead of the other way around.
“LLMs are not AI”
Artificial intelligence is a term used in computer science to describe a system capable of performing any cognitive tasks that would normally require human intelligence - like generating natural-sounding language. The issue isn’t that the term is being used incorrectly, but rather that most people think it means more than it actually does. It’s a broad term that covers everything from old Atari chess engines to artificial superintelligence.
The problem is people think llm AI means it’s thinking, when it’s obviously not. Thus: “llms are not ai” is said so people will hopefully stop thinking the llms are thinking.
If AI was able to actually think, it wouldn’t even need your input to feed it thoughts from you to respond. It’d probably just talk right away and accurately assume it knows what you want.
AI is just simply an over-glorified piece of tech that is placed in things when humans are incapable of doing it themselves and doing it as efficiently as possible. Like reading anything in microseconds.
That’s weird because I have a calculator that can think, so AI should be able to think too.
That’s not thinking. That’s calculating. It doesn’t have any thoughts about your math problems.
I can see what it’s thinking right there on the screen. It thinks that 6x7=42
Touche
I’ll give you that one lol
You say that but I feel judged sometimes.
I’m math intolerant. It destroys my stomach
Really? You’re asking what’s 6x7? Didn’t you learn that in elementary school?
That’s about when I first read the Hitchhiker Trilogy, so, yeah.
Marketing and pr pressure to be able to use the term “Ai” because it’s the current hype. Everything is now Ai. It’s now a meaningless term. Image processing, data calculations, language interpretation, language generation, all claim to be Ai. If your product has Ai it now tells me nothing about what it does.
Arguing that because nerds appropriated an original term does not mean that we have to change the meaning of the original term…
I don’t look out my “transpart glass” I look out my windows. Even tho that’s the name of an operating system. If I say I grok something, it means I understand like Heinlen intended, not that I asked a racist AI about it.
“Artificial Intelligence” and all sorts of things computer nerds are trying to claim they invented have existed in theory at least as far back as Rome.
So “the problem” is you first heard about it in the context of chatbots, so now you want to insist that is the only meaning the phrase has ever represented and everyone else needs to change to accomdoate you.
The problem isn’t people are using the phrase wrong, the problem is you don’t know what it means except in a very narrow context.
None of any of this shit is new, people are just ignorant.
It’s like when I was a kid and watched pro-wrestling, I thought I was cool and original, because I didn’t know the media that they were blatantly ripping off of.
That’s where you are at right now with Artificial Intelligence, you only know the version the grifters have appropriated.
Pre-emptive edit:
I’m not saying chatbots are AI, I’m saying the definition that calls them AI is incorrect because grifters just changed it to fit what they were doing, for money.
First, that actually is how language works. Meaning is given to words by consensus and consensus alone. Generally, since it came to widespread usage in the modern lexicon it means exactly as they described.
Second, you say it was appropriated. Okay, from what?
You say that like computer scientists in the 1950s who invented the concept of AI stole it from science fiction writers instead of the other way around.
See also: “crypto.”