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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

but it was not ai

It's as much AI as when they made the chess computer that beat Kasparov, it's just not a very sophisticated AI.

[-] thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

its not ai. its not on the cutting edge of the field of researching ai. its not progress. it does not get us closer. it does not tell us anything about ourselves or information science we didn't learn from satoshi nakamoto or Adolph Hitler years earlier.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

It doesn't have to be cutting edge or even progress to be AI, how did you get that idea? Obviously Anthropic and OpenAI have cutting edge AI, they are considered the global leaders, even if they go bankrupt in a few months.

I think you are confusing AI with AGI or strong AI.
There is not 1 single way to make an AI, and there are HUGE differences in how good they are, but very very definitely we have had AI since the 80's. Back then it just wasn't really usable, that began to a very small degree in the 90's, with for instance expert systems.

Maybe read this to become better informed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

If we fix the name, it will not change what it does, and it probably won't fix how people use and feel about it. "Really Good Guessing Machine" is less marketable than "Artificial Intelligence", and much closer to the truth, but CEOs would be willing to take credit for laying off 20% of their workforce because they have RGGM now.

Maybe "Predictive Token Gamble", to convey that all it does is predict tokens, and each output, each use case, and the entire industry as a whole is a gamble... "PTG reduced our human capital expenditure by 20%" still goes a long way, though.

[-] bumblebeer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

How is what people do any better or different than the Really Good Guessing Machine?

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

What is AI to you then? Is the only thing that's AI a fully working consciousness but running on silicon instead of synapses?

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