Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI (Artificial Intelligence)?
Real AI does not exist yet,
atm we only have LLMs (Large Language Models),
which do not think on their own,
but pass turing tests
(fool humans into thinking that they can think).
Imo AI is just a marketing buzzword,
created by rich capitalistic a-holes,
who already invested in LLM stocks,
and now are looking for a profit.
The term AI has been around longer than LLMs, and refers to a wide variety of different algorithms and approaches to automatically extracting and working with information.
LLMs are an AI technique, just like Bayesian networks for causal inference are an AI technique.
The issue isn’t that we don’t have “real” AI, it’s that most people are misusing a general technical term, and then being indignant that it doesn’t exactly match a very specific sub category (AGI, or artificial general intelligence)
You see the same thing with people calling cryptocurrency “crypto”, even though that word is typically used among experts to refer to “cryptography”, which is mostly not relevant to currency in the slightest.
This one’s not on the tech people, it’s on the people who keep missusing the words.