• rdyoung@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    What you mean to say is that people have been using AI wrong for decades. Artificial Intelligence is by definition the same as AGI. Intelligence is not the ability to follow directions and do exactly what is asked. There is a lot more to it than that. Just like IQ is intelligence Quotient. IQ is not a measure of what someone knows, it’s about how they take in new information and process and use it. You can’t really say that a computer generated art is AI because it simply did what was asked and usually with random choices as to what to add based on what was or wasn’t in the prompt. Same goes for llms, to call llms AI would mean that Google, duck duck go, etc are AI as well.

    And go ahead and downvote me for this. I’m a techy and geek and I know what I am talking about and I’ve watched and been irritated as people use terms like AI for things that aren’t really AI and aren’t even close. And I’m a huge trekkie so you don’t have to explain what they call anything.

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      9 months ago

      What you mean to say is that people have been using AI wrong for decades.

      The term was first used in 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. It’s been in the names of numerous scientific journals, university departments, software projects, and so forth. But I guess they were all wrong this whole time.

      That’s not how language works. It’s a consensus system, if someone says something and everyone else understands what they said then that was the right word.

      Artificial Intelligence is by definition the same as AGI.

      Why are they two different terms, then?

      Same goes for llms, to call llms AI would mean that Google, duck duck go, etc are AI as well.

      They are AI as well. Lots of things are AI. It’s a broad field of study.

      What is the point of this semantic quibbling? If your preferred term for whatever it is the article is talking about was substituted for every instance of “AI” in it, would that actually change anything?

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        9 months ago

        It’s a marketing term for corporations. Companies are just using it as a buzz word. The sooner you realize that, the better.

        Yes there are people studying and learning how to advance the actual field of scientific AI, but that’s not what’s going on here.