The hype cycle for Google’s fabulous new AI Co-Scientist tool, based on the Gemini LLM, includes a BBC headline about how José Penadés’ team at Imperial College asked the tool about a problem…
I fucking hate that everyone has just accepted calling them AI. They are not AI they are LLMs which are nowhere close to what the sci-fi idea of AI is and no matter what sam says I don’t think that they are the way to getting an AGI.
For clarification I understand that LLMs are a subset of AI but it feels like calling squares rectangles technically true but misleading.
I fucking hate that everyone has just accepted calling them AI. They are not AI they are LLMs which are nowhere close to what the sci-fi idea of AI is and no matter what sam says I don’t think that they are the way to getting an AGI.
For clarification I understand that LLMs are a subset of AI but it feels like calling squares rectangles technically true but misleading.
Not only that, calling the field “AI” is built in hype.
I work in the field of intelligent machines.
Oh cool, so you can build intelligent machines?
Hell no. We just call the field that. For reasons.
Edit: my dialogue dashes became blocks. Must be an intelligent machine changing them or something.