Unless you're using what I would consider a pretty idiosyncratic definition of "real" then I'd say LLM's are "real AI". Less than perfect AI, sure. Less than "h

Unless you're using what I would consider a pretty idiosyncratic definition of "real" then I'd say LLM's are "real AI". Less than perfect AI, sure. Less than "human level" in some areas, sure. But then again, human intelligence isn't exactly perfect either. I would argue that intelligence is nothing more than the ability to display behavior that would be considered intelligent in context. In that regard, we've had "artificial intelligence" for decades, and it's simply slowly improving in terms of its capabilities and fidelity with "actual human" intelligence over time. Now if by "real AI" you mean "AI like in the sci-fi movies, AI that is fully equal to humans in every regard and probably exceeds humans in some regards"... then clearly we're not there yet but I still see no reason in principle to think that it won't happen in time. That is, is there any particular reason to think that LLM's are the last advancement in AI that will ever take place?