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 threadCharlie StrossMay 20
@acb @GeePawHill It used to be a running joke that "AI" means "anything we don't understand how to do with computers (yet)". Play chess? Machine vision? High level programming languages like COBOL or LISP (that didn't require intimate understanding of the underlying machine)? Simple chatbots like ELIZA? All heralded as AI before they were invented … then no longer AI.
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@cstross @acb @GeePawHill

It's like we could rewrite Frankenstein except the monster is under the custody of an Amway salesman.

May 20 at 9:31amWeb