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> Isn't the hint in the name? It's a language model, not a knowledge model. Well yes, but how is this insight helpful? People aren't just looking at the name.
by mvdtnz 3y ago
> Isn't the hint in the name? It's a language model, not a knowledge model.
Well yes, but how is this insight helpful? People aren't just looking at the name. Have your missed the last 10 months of ridiculous breathless coverage of LLMs?
> The trouble is people think it goes deeper when the knowledge modeling part
People are literally calling this shitty text prediction algorithm "AI". The discourse is completely out of hand.
- simonw 3y agoIt is "AI", using the definition of that term that was established when the term was coined in 1956. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop > An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. LLMs fit that definition well. They're not AGI, but I think it's fair to call them AI.
- mvdtnz 3y agoThere is no widely accepted definition of "AI" and even if I accepted this one (I absolutely do not) no LLM meets this bar in the general sense.
- trealira 3y agoGame tree heuristic searches, like the minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning, has also been called AI, which is why programs that play chess are called AI. What I think is the problem is that when people hear "artificial intelligence," they don't think of chess programs anymore; they think of something like Skynet from the Terminator. Or, maybe now they think of ChatGPT.
- simonw 3y agoThat 1956 workshop is widely credited as the place where the term AI was coined. If they don't get to define "AI", who does?
- Izkata 3y agoWhat some people now call AGI, the average person thinks of when they hear AI.