What I noticed is that there appeared an “AI” guard brigade that is trying to enforce that AI only applies to LLMs all over the internet. And another that decided that “AI” means “human-equivalent intelligence”.
Of course, both are loud. And dumb for brigading over words instead of ideas.
I’m in the “people are way too anthrocentric and don’t allow for the concept that maybe the language model IS understanding, albeit in a much more simplistic way than humans, in order to generate its output, as it needs an internal world model to even be able to function and has been demonstrated as having one.” camp.
People really aren’t ready to have the crown of human intelligence challenged and will cling onto anything - like saying LLMs only parrot stuff unintelligently, or “its just really clever math” (your brain is also really clever math implemented in meatspace) - to maintain a level of comfort.
Interesting.
What I noticed is that there appeared an “AI” guard brigade that is trying to enforce that AI only applies to LLMs all over the internet. And another that decided that “AI” means “human-equivalent intelligence”.
Of course, both are loud. And dumb for brigading over words instead of ideas.
I’ve never seen that.
The two camps are:
LLM isn’t AI because it isn’t human equivalent. This camp is commonly associated with the meme, “LLM is nothing but marketing hype.”
LLM is one of many types of AI. This camp is associated with the meme, “LLM’s can solve some problems.”
I’m in the “people are way too anthrocentric and don’t allow for the concept that maybe the language model IS understanding, albeit in a much more simplistic way than humans, in order to generate its output, as it needs an internal world model to even be able to function and has been demonstrated as having one.” camp.
People really aren’t ready to have the crown of human intelligence challenged and will cling onto anything - like saying LLMs only parrot stuff unintelligently, or “its just really clever math” (your brain is also really clever math implemented in meatspace) - to maintain a level of comfort.