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So is everything being called "AI" these days just LLMs now or is it more?

• dvh 3y ago
  Is Monte Carlo AI?
  • rubatuga 3y ago
    So is linear regression
  • lispisok 3y ago
    No because AI is just a marketing term for unproven technology to generate hype. Once something is proven and use cases/limitations understood its no longer AI. Spellcheck was once considered AI
    • smcin 3y ago
      > Spellcheck was once considered AI No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation. Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. Originally it was simple heuristic-based against a dictionary (localized, maybe also allowing some personalization). Noone called it AI, pre-2010 AFAIK. Can you show any pre-2010 citations for any actual mainstream consumer-available spellchecking using AI?) I only see a small number of references to the use of AI in spellchecking, mostly post-2018, and they're still the minority of mentions of spellchecking, dictionary heuristics is still a simpler much more basic technique, even if ads don't say that. (There are now (post-2018, GPT-era) AI-based spellchecking/writing-coach/style-type startups, and obviously there are also many companies trying to infuse their collateral with claims about AI, or pivot/bolt on AI to a non-AI concept. Let's not muddle all that together.)
      • aidenn0 3y ago
        > let's not start spreading misinformation. The first non-research-project spell-checker was in 1971 and came from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), where earlier research on spell checking had been done.
      • deleted 3y ago
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      • shellygoodman 3y ago
        > No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation. This website ("hacker" news) should really be renamed "confidently wrong"; just like smcin's laughable assertion. HN is a propaganda site run by billionaires who editorialize and moderate it to promote their own interests. It's infested with this type of confidently wrong know-it-all. You know what's worse than a pedant? An incorrect pedant. And this site is stuffed with them. It's a Dunning-Kruger hall of mirrors.
        • drewcoo 3y ago
          Mostly concur, but I'd downplay the D-K. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202012/dunning-kruger-isnt-real https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...
      • shellygoodman 3y ago
        > Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. And the moon was settled by whalers sometime in the 1750's! Seriously, you're approaching that level of wrong.
• cpcat 3y ago
  I know a company that claims to do AI. Their models didn't work so they ended hiring humans to manually do the job AI was supposed to do. Obviously that won't scale, but they still call themselves an AI company.
  • apwell23 3y ago
    Its just 'human in the loop' AI as long as you don't reveal the humans are the whole loop.
    • smcin 3y ago
      That can still be a legit description as long as there's some learning capacity in the loop, and that can slowly be automated. Legal informatics is one such domain, there can be use-cases that are very domain-specific, and some high-value events occur rarely, hence can be a small-data problem, with big errorbars (think Apple-Samsung litigation).
    • lupire 3y ago
      Human is the loop.
  • falcor84 3y ago
    The official term is "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"
    • anu7df 3y ago
      Official term should be AI 2.0 double the artificial, zero intelligence
    • walterbell 3y ago
      A2I Artificial to Intelligence
  • joshxyz 3y ago
    I've read somewhere that AGI = A Guy in India.
• moomoo11 3y ago
  What about slapping a wrapper around OpenAI's APIs and calling it a AI company? ..bUt ThEy fInE TuNEd iT...