• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    This tech could be such a exciting break through, a step towards real artificial intelligence

    No, not really lol.

    The best analogy for this that I’ve heard is that it’s like saying elevators are a step towards teleporters. Calling it “intelligence” is a marketing coup. It is not intelligence, artificial or otherwise.

    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Have you seen the first elevators? Or even used a chat bot prior to this? The definition of “AI” for a long time was just “decision trees” or some really neat classification systems. This is different. The hype and terrible business practices is the problem not the idea itself.

      I also agree that calling it Artificial intelligence is a marking scheme, it’s a loaded term machine learning is better. This has always kinda been a problem. Technically it’s very loosely defined. I always refer to it as LLMs

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      20 hours ago

      But what is intelligence?

      -every idiot who can’t tell the difference when they talk to a clanker