Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AI existed before LLMs. People called NPCs and enemy character patterns “AI”.

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it’s technically incorrect to conflate the two.

  Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others. “GenAI” is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.

  That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it’s incorrect to call LLMs “AI”, good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others.

    Fair point. I haven’t heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.

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• bestonecrazy@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is also the “Plagurized Information Synthesis System”

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oooh, Iike that one.

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