• @[email protected]
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    27 hours ago

    pretending LLMs are AI

    LLMs are AI. There’s a common misconception about what ‘AI’ actually means. Many people equate AI with the advanced, human-like intelligence depicted in sci-fi - like HAL 9000, JARVIS, Ava, Mother, Samantha, Skynet, and GERTY. These systems represent a type of AI called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), designed to perform a wide range of tasks and demonstrate a form of general intelligence similar to humans.

    However, AI itself doesn’t imply general intelligence. Even something as simple as a chess-playing robot qualifies as AI. Although it’s a narrow AI, excelling in just one task, it still fits within the AI category. So, AI is a very broad term that covers everything from highly specialized systems to the type of advanced, adaptable intelligence that we often imagine. Think of it like the term ‘plants,’ which includes everything from grass to towering redwoods - each different, but all fitting within the same category.

    • @raspberriesareyummy
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      16 hours ago

      Here we go… Fanperson explaining the world to the dumb lost sheep. Thank you so much for stepping down from your high horse to try and educate a simple person. /s

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        6 hours ago

        How’s insulting the people respectfully disagreeing with you working out so far? That ad-hominem was completely uncalled for.

        • @raspberriesareyummy
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          26 hours ago

          “Fanperson” is an insult now? Cry me a river, snowflake. Also, you weren’t disagreeing, you were explaining something to someone perceived less knowledgeable than you, while demonstrating you have no grasp of the core difference between stochastics and AI.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 hours ago

        It’s not. Bubble sort is a purely deterministic algorithm with no learning or intelligence involved.

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            26 hours ago

            Bubble sort is just a basic set of steps for sorting numbers - it doesn’t make choices or adapt. A chess engine, on the other hand, looks at different possible moves, evaluates which one is best, and adjusts based on the opponent’s play. It actively searches through options and makes decisions, while bubble sort just follows the same repetitive process no matter what. That’s a huge difference.

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              111 minutes ago

              Your argument can be reduced to saying that if the algorithm is comprised of many steps, it is AI, and if not, it isn’t.

              A chess engine decides nothing. It understands nothing. It’s just an algorithm.