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I'm not sure what you mean by "everyone knew what AI meant"? It's always been an extremely vague term, since its inception — and LLMs do, actually, enable compu
by logicprog 7mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "everyone knew what AI meant"? It's always been an extremely vague term, since its inception — and LLMs do, actually, enable computers to do things I, at least, would've called basically AGI in 2020.
- albatross79 7mo agoThere's nothing vague about it. Intelligence is understanding. I think you're just motivated to be confused because you want to fit this thing into that box and it doesn't really fit. So maybe output is an that matters, are we auto completers, can you be intelligent without knowing, etc etc.
- logicprog 7mo agoI'm sorry, but very many systems have been called AI that don't have "understanding," and been very useful without that. I'm not sure when that was ever part of the definition? Even Wikipedia gives a definition similar to my own, and I think Karen Hao makes a very good historical case that the definition of AI has never been super clear in Empires of AI, and she's no fan of LLMs (or the field of AI in general, it seems), that there never really has particularly been a clear definition.