The phrase AI has never actually meant that though? It's just a machine that can take in information and make decisions. A thermostat is an AI. And not a fancy modern one either. I'm talking about an old bi-metallic strip in a plastic box. That's how the phrase has always been used outside of sci-fi, where it usually is used to talk about superintelligent general intelligences. The problem isn't that people are calling LLMs AI. The problem is that the billionaires who run everything are too stupid to understand that difference.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I would argue that, prior to chatgpt's marketing, AI did mean that.

When talking about specific, non-general, techniques, it was called things like ML, etc.

After openai coopted AI to mean an LLM, people started using AGI to mean what AI used to mean.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Doom enemies had AI 30 years ago.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But those weren't generated using machine learning, were they?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So? I don't see how that's relevant to the point that "AI" has been used for very simple decision algorithms since for along time, and it makes no sense to not use it for LLMs too.

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (5 replies)