I saw people complaining the companies are yet to find the next big thing with AI, but I am already seeing countless offer good solutions for almost every field imaginable. What is this thing the tech industry is waiting for and what are all these current products if not what they had in mind?

I am not great with understanding the business point of view of this situation and I have been out from the news for a long time, so I would really appreciate if someone could ELI5.

  • FaceDeer
    17•6 months ago

    It is true AI, it’s just not AGI. Artificial General Intelligence is the sort of thing you see on Star Trek. AI is a much broader term and it encompasses large language models, as well as even simpler things like pathfinding algorithms or OCR. The term “AI” has been in use for this kind of thing since 1956, it’s not some sudden new marketing buzzword that’s being misapplied. Indeed, it’s the people who are insisting that LLMs are not AI that are attempting to redefine a word that’s already been in use for a very long time.

    You can see this when chat bots keep giving the same 2 pieces incorrect information. They have no concept of they are wrong.

    Reminds me of the classic quote from Charles Babbage:

    “On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question”

    How is the chatbot supposed to know that the information it’s been given is wrong?

    If you were talking with a human and they thought something was true that wasn’t actually true, do you not count them as an intelligence any more?

    • The Pantser
      5•6 months ago

      If you were talking with a human and they thought something was true that wasn’t actually true, do you not count them as an intelligence any more?

      If they refuse to learn and change their belief? Absolutely.