You know exactly what we’re talking about when we look at this article and say “AI doesn’t work.” If you want to feign outrage, save it for the tech companies that muddy the waters.
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Iconoclast@feddit.uk 23 hours agoAI is a broad category of systems, not any one thing. “AI doesn’t work” is like saying “plants taste bad”
XLE@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Even if someone’s inaccurately using “AI” as a synonym for LLMs, that claim would still be false - because LLMs work. You can use one right now.
One spitting out false information isn’t a sign they’re not working. That’s not what LLMs are designed for. They’re chatbots - not generally intelligent systems.
XLE@piefed.social 19 hours ago
If you can understand the sentence “AI doesn’t work” is about LLMs, surely you can also understand that not working is synonymous for returning incorrect outputs.
I have literally no idea what else you’d be arguing. Its ability to generate words? Everybody knows it can do that
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
The vast majority of people aren’t educated on the correct terminology here. They don’t know the difference between AI, LLM, AGI, ASI, etc. That makes it near impossible to have real discussions about AI - everyone’s constantly talking past each other and using the same words to mean completely different things.
My original comment wasn’t even challenging their claim that “AI doesn’t work.” I was just pointing out that AI and LLM aren’t synonymous. It’s my one-man fight against sloppy, imprecise use of language. I’d rather engage with what people are actually saying, not with what I assume they’re saying.
When it comes to LLMs, it’s not just a “word generator.” It’s a system that generates natural-sounding language based on statistical probabilities and patterns. In other words: it talks. That’s all. Saying an LLM “doesn’t work” because it spits out inaccurate info is like saying a chess bot doesn’t work because it can’t play poker. No - that’s user error. They’re trying to use the tool for something it was never designed to do.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
When they are pushing any plant, for everything, everywhere disregarding concerns for quality or appropriateness yeah plants taste bad, and will probably kill a few people