GeePawHillMay 19

It's too bad that LLM grifters sought to shine their reputation by calling it "AI".

It didn't shine their reputation.

It ruined the world's opinion of the fascinating & legitimate science -- and remarkably creative uses -- of actual artificial intelligence.

Show threadacbMay 20
@GeePawHill @cstross the term “AI” has been marketing hot-air since the days of John McCarthy. Anything emerging from it that matured enough to obviously not yield the godlike machines of loving grace the term promised ended up being renamed to something more mundane so that the term could be reused for the next thing.
Show threadWellsiteGeo

@acb @GeePawHill @cstross John McCarthy, the journalist kidnapped in the Levant War from about 1985 to 1990?

I didn't know he was into AI.

The interesting uses of the tech have long pivoted to calling it "machine learning", to get away from the slop.

May 20 at 9:28amWeb
Show threadacbMay 20
@WellsiteGeo @GeePawHill @cstross no, the one who invented Lisp in the late 1950s