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AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially. Just like we have machines that can do "math", and they do so ar

AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially. Just like we have machines that can do "math", and they do so artificially. Or "logic", and they do so artificially. I assume we'll drop the "artificial" part in my lifetime, since there's nothing truly artificial about it (just like math and logic), since it's really just mechanical. No one cares that transistors can do math or logic, and it shouldn't bother people that transistors can predict next tokens either.

mayama 6mo ago
> AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially. AI in pop culture doesn't mean that at all. Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics. Now, that LLMs have taken over the world, they can define AI as anything they want.
- ruszki 6mo ago
  In 2018, ie “pre-LLM”, the label “AI” was already stamped to everything, so I highly doubt that most people thought that their washing machines are sentient in any way. I remember this starkly, because my team was responsible at Ericsson (that time, about 120k employees) for one of the crucial step to have models in production, and basically every single project wanted that stamp. The shift in meaning has been slowly diluted more and more across decades.
- throw310822 6mo ago
  > Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics. I'll reveal you a secret: "positronic brains" are just very fast parallel computers running LLMs.
saghm 6mo ago
> Just like we have machines that can do "math", and they do so artificially. Nobody calls calculators "artificial mathemeticians", though; we refer to them by a unique word that defines what they can and can't do in a far less fanciful and ambiguous way.

mayama 6mo ago

> AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially. AI in pop culture doesn't mean that at all. Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics. Now, that LLMs have taken over the world, they can define AI as anything they want.

ruszki 6mo ago
In 2018, ie “pre-LLM”, the label “AI” was already stamped to everything, so I highly doubt that most people thought that their washing machines are sentient in any way. I remember this starkly, because my team was responsible at Ericsson (that time, about 120k employees) for one of the crucial step to have models in production, and basically every single project wanted that stamp. The shift in meaning has been slowly diluted more and more across decades.
throw310822 6mo ago
> Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics. I'll reveal you a secret: "positronic brains" are just very fast parallel computers running LLMs.

saghm 6mo ago

> Just like we have machines that can do "math", and they do so artificially. Nobody calls calculators "artificial mathemeticians", though; we refer to them by a unique word that defines what they can and can't do in a far less fanciful and ambiguous way.