@davidgerard I think this is where a lot of the unaccepted hype of the various LLM platforms have muddied the waters.

they've done such a job of linking any form of machine learning with their own slop machines that even though they're not the same thing, in normal people's head's they've become conflated.

so when we hear about machine learning making some advancement the various AI-bros leap on it as justification for their own slop even though the connection in practical senses is tenuous.