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PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
We need more enlightening terms for this stuff. The hallucinatory waffling waste of energy isn’t AI, it’s all LLMs. The models which work well in medicine aren’t generally LLMs, and aren’t even known as Generative AI either, they’re very advanced data aggregation systems. If we keep calling everything AI, it all gets erroneously lumped together and tarred with the same brush, held in a badly drawn hand with too many fingers. The data science used in medical images is a world away from LLM nonsense, and has been making decent progress for at least a decade - here are some of the more amazing uses
<…> they’re very advanced data aggregation systems. If we keep calling everything AI, it all gets erroneously lumped together and tarred with the same brush, held in a badly drawn hand with too many fingers.
Also know as machine learning. But that term was killed by the industry on purpose to exploit the “AI” hype bubble.
I think for non tech people (can’t write a line of code in any language) the processes are similar enough for the use of a general term. I think AI is fine for this purpose even ignoring the fact that it’s probably too late to go back
The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t mean human-level consciousness or sci-fi-style general intelligence - that’s a specific subset called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In reality, AI refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.
Large language models fall well within this definition. They’re narrow AIs - highly specialized, not general - but still part of the broader AI category. When people say “this isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a fictional or futuristic idea of what AI should be, rather than how the term has actually been used in computer science for decades.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
I’ve been wanting the same for years because even the rudimentary movement and behaviour patterns of an NPC in a video game is called “AI” and it’s not really AI either, in the big sense that it is an intelligence that was artificially created. While true, it is artificial and mimicks behaviour of something intelligent, it’s not actually thinking at all and once you know the rules they follow, you can exploit them. Hell, a lot of games that is actually the intended thing to do and they wouldn’t work at all if the NPCs had a real AI governing them.