Words might have meanings but AI has been used by researchers to refer to toy neutral networks longer than most people on Lemmy have been alive.
This insistence that AI must refer to human type intelligence is also such a weird distortion of language. Intelligence has never been a binary, human level indicator. When people say that a dog is intelligent, or an ant hive shows signs of intelligence, they don’t mean it can do what a human can. Why should AI be any different?
You honestly don’t seem to understand. This is not about the extent of intelligence. This is about actual understanding. Being able to classify a logical problem / a thought into concepts and processing it based on properties of such concepts and relations to other concepts.
Deep learning, as impressive as the results may appear, is not that. You just throw a training data at a few billion “switches” and flip switches until you get close enough to a desired result, without being able to predict how the outcome will be if a tiny change happens in input data.
Op is an idiot though hope we can agree with that one.
Telling everyone else how they should use language is just an ultimately moronic move. After all we’re not French, we don’t have a central authority for how language works.
Telling everyone else how they should use language is just an ultimately moronic move. After all we’re not French, we don’t have a central authority for how language works.
There’s a difference between objecting to misuse of language and “telling everyone how they should use language” - you may not have intended it, but you used a straw man argument there.
What we all should be acutely aware of (but unfortunately many are not) is how language is used to harm humans, animals or our planet.
Fascists use language to create “outgroups” which they then proceed to dehumanize and eventually violate or murder.
Capitalists speak about investor risks to justify return on invest, and proceed to lobby for de-regulation of markets that causes human and animal suffering through price gouging and factory farming livestock.
Tech corporations speak about “Artificial Intelligence” and proceed to persuade regulators that - because there’s “intelligent” systems - this software may be used for autonomous systems that proceed to cause injury and death on malfunctions.
Yes, all such harm can be caused by individuals in daily life - individuals can be murderers or extort people on something they really need, or a drunk driver can cause an accident that kills people. However, the language that normalizes or facilitates such atrocities or dangers on a large scale, is dangerous and therefore I will proceed to continue calling out those who want to label the shitty penny market LLMs and other deep learning systems as “AI”.
I’ve given up trying to enforce the traditional definitions of “moot”, “to beg the question”, “nonplussed”, and “literally” it’s helped my mental health. A little. I suggest you do the same, it’s a losing battle and the only person who gets hurt is you.
Oops accidentally submitted. If someone disagrees with this as a fair challenge, let me know why.
I’ve been presenting this challenge repeatedly and in my experience it leads very quickly to the fact that nobody — especially not the experts — has a precise definition of AGI
You’re using AI to mean AGI and LLMs to mean AI. That’s on you though, everyone else knows what we’re talking about.
Words have meanings. Marketing morons are not linguists.
Words might have meanings but AI has been used by researchers to refer to toy neutral networks longer than most people on Lemmy have been alive.
This insistence that AI must refer to human type intelligence is also such a weird distortion of language. Intelligence has never been a binary, human level indicator. When people say that a dog is intelligent, or an ant hive shows signs of intelligence, they don’t mean it can do what a human can. Why should AI be any different?
You honestly don’t seem to understand. This is not about the extent of intelligence. This is about actual understanding. Being able to classify a logical problem / a thought into concepts and processing it based on properties of such concepts and relations to other concepts. Deep learning, as impressive as the results may appear, is not that. You just throw a training data at a few billion “switches” and flip switches until you get close enough to a desired result, without being able to predict how the outcome will be if a tiny change happens in input data.
I mean that’s a problem, but it’s distinct from the word “intelligence”.
An intelligent dog can’t classify a logic problem either, but we’re still happy to call them intelligent.
As someone who still says a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, i agree with your sentiment.
Amen. Kibibytes my ass ;)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/artificial intelligence
Op is an idiot though hope we can agree with that one.
Telling everyone else how they should use language is just an ultimately moronic move. After all we’re not French, we don’t have a central authority for how language works.
There’s a difference between objecting to misuse of language and “telling everyone how they should use language” - you may not have intended it, but you used a straw man argument there.
What we all should be acutely aware of (but unfortunately many are not) is how language is used to harm humans, animals or our planet.
Fascists use language to create “outgroups” which they then proceed to dehumanize and eventually violate or murder. Capitalists speak about investor risks to justify return on invest, and proceed to lobby for de-regulation of markets that causes human and animal suffering through price gouging and factory farming livestock. Tech corporations speak about “Artificial Intelligence” and proceed to persuade regulators that - because there’s “intelligent” systems - this software may be used for autonomous systems that proceed to cause injury and death on malfunctions.
Yes, all such harm can be caused by individuals in daily life - individuals can be murderers or extort people on something they really need, or a drunk driver can cause an accident that kills people. However, the language that normalizes or facilitates such atrocities or dangers on a large scale, is dangerous and therefore I will proceed to continue calling out those who want to label the shitty penny market LLMs and other deep learning systems as “AI”.
I’ve given up trying to enforce the traditional definitions of “moot”, “to beg the question”, “nonplussed”, and “literally” it’s helped my mental health. A little. I suggest you do the same, it’s a losing battle and the only person who gets hurt is you.
Nobody has yet met this challenge:
Anyone who claims LLMs aren’t AGI should present a text processing task an AGI could accomplish that an LLM cannot.
Or if you disagree with my
Oops accidentally submitted. If someone disagrees with this as a fair challenge, let me know why.
I’ve been presenting this challenge repeatedly and in my experience it leads very quickly to the fact that nobody — especially not the experts — has a precise definition of AGI
“Write an essay on the rise of ai and fact check it.”
“Write a verifiable proof of the four colour problem”
“If p=np write a python program demonstrating this, else give me a high-level explanation why it is not true.”