Martin Rundkvist1d ago

This we know: machine learning is not intelligence, and so the LLM chat services are not artificial intelligence. Those are just autocomplete. #AI is a misnomer.

But the other day, a trade organisation for translators published a document referring to machine #translation as "AI". That's really another step in the wrong direction for what those two letters should be applied to. Nobody thinks translating a sentence automatically is a sign of artificial intelligence.

#LLM #aibubble

Show threadCTD1d ago
@mrundkvist sadly the term has lost all meaning. Or at least its original meaning. It’s now just a marketing catchphrase.
Show threadMartin Rundkvist1d ago
@CTD
The term has been misused for ages. Long before the current craze, the video game community referred to the algorithms games used to compete against you as "AI". But nobody there actually believed that chess-playing software or Civilization IV had achieved intelligence.
Show threadtrenchworms
@mrundkvist @CTD I am more okay with video game behaviour being called "AI" in that they are meant to be an artificial replacement for the intelligence of a human opponent. And also noöne was sinking the global economy and destroying the planet because of heuristics and IF statements in the first FEAR game.
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Show threadMartin Rundkvist1d ago

@trenchworms
I agree with you about the environmental and conflict-related aspect of the current craze. But that doesn't really play into what the word "intelligence" means. We might imagine a situation where Chat GPT *had actually* achieved intelligence *and* was a severe environmental problem. But it's never going to. It's just all so pointless.

#ai #llm #aibubble

Show threadtrenchworms1d ago
@mrundkvist That's entirely fair and maybe the issue was using "intelligence" from the start; but at the same time, it always felt like people would commend "NPC AI" with it being fairly obvious that they were saying "These behaviours have been coded very intelligently" and not "I'm playing against a real form of intellect". The term's metonymy has been destroyed by intentional marketing in the age of GenAI, and that annoys me to no end.