AI doesn’t necessarily mean human-level intelligence, if that’s what you mean. The AI field has wrestled with this for decades. There can be “strong AI”, which is aiming for that human-level intelligence, but that’s probably a far off goal. The “weak AI” is about pushing the boundaries of what computers can do, and that stuff has been massively useful even before we talk about the more modern stuff.
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johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Largely because we understand that what they’re calling “AI” isn’t AI.
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Sounds like people here are expecting to see GPAI and singularity stuff, but all they see is a pitiful LLM or other even more narrow AI applications. Remember, even character recognition used to be called AI until it became so common that it wasn’t exciting any more. What AI developers call AI today, is just basic automation and few decades later.
marcos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It absolutely is AI. A lot of stuff is AI.
It’s just not that useful.
Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The decision tree my company uses to deny customer claims is not AI despite the business constantly referring to it as such.
There’s definitely a ton of “AI” in the business world that is not better than an If/Else statement.
Wrench@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s basically what video game AI is, and we’re happy enough to call it that
archon@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well… it’s a video game. We also call them “CPU” which is also entirely inaccurate.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 10 months ago
for many years AI referred to that type of technology. It is not infact AGI but AI historically in the technical field refers more towards decision trees, and classification/ linear regression models.
theneverfox@pawb.social 10 months ago
That’s called an expert system, and has been commonly called a form of AI for decades.
That is indeed what most of it is, my company was doing “sentiment analysis” and it was literally just checking it against a good and bad word list
When someone corporate says “AI” you should hear “extremely rudimentary machine learning” until given more details
bitwolf@lemmy.one 10 months ago
It’s useful at sucking down all the compute we complained crypto used
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah it’s funny how that little tidbit just went quietly into the bin not to talked about again.
Womble@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The main difference is that crypto was/is burning huge amounts of energy to run a distributed ponzi scheme. LLMs are at least using energy to create a useful tool (even if there is discussion over how useful they are).
bitwolf@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I argue AI is much easier to pull a profit from than a currency exchange also 🙂
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
You really should listen rather than talk. This is not AI, it’s just a word prediction model.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yes, what you’re describing is also AI.
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Then we may as well call the field of statistics AI now, but sure, it’s a crazy world. :)
ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There are significant differences between statistical models and AI.
I work for an analytics department at a fortune 100 company. We have a very clear delineation between what constitutes a model and what constitutes an AI.
wischi@programming.dev 10 months ago
That’s true. Statistical models are very carefully engineered and tested and current machine learning models are created by throwing a lot of training data at the software and hope for the best that the things that the model learns are not complete bullshit.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Yeah, an AI is a model you can’t explain.
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
Optimizing compilers came directly out of AI research. The entirety of modern computing is built on it.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yup. LLM RAG is just search 2.0 with a GPU.
For certain use cases it’s incredible, but those use cases shouldn’t be your first idea for a pipeline
kromem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Given that AI isn’t purported to be AGI, how do you define AI such that multimodal transformers capable of developing abstract world models as linear representations and trained on unthinkable amounts of human content mirroring a wide array of capabilities which lead to the ability to do things thought to be impossible as recently as three years ago (such as explain jokes not in the training set or solve riddles not in the training set) isn’t “artificial intelligence”?
archon@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
THANK YOU! I’ve been saying this a long time, but have just kind of accepted that the definition of AI is no longer what it was.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is a growing pet peeve of mine. If and when actual AI becomes a thing, it’ll be a major turning point for humanity comparable to things like harnessing fire or electricity.
…and most people will be confused as fuck. “We’ve had this for years, what’s the big deal?” -_-
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 10 months ago
I also believe that will happen! We will not be prepared since many don’t understand the differences between what current models do and what an actual general AI could potentially do.
It also saddens me that many don’t know or ignore how fundamental abstract reasoning is to our understanding of how human intelligence works. And that LLMs simply aren’t intelligent in that sense (or at all, if you take a tight definition of intelligence).
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t get how recognizing a pattern is not AI. It recognizes patterns in data, and patterns in side of patterns, and does so at a massive scale. Humans are no different, we find patterns and make predictions on what to do next.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 10 months ago
The human brain does not simply recognise patterns, though. Abstract reasoning means that humans are able to find solutions for problems they did not encounter before. That’s what makes a thing intelligent. It is not fully understood yet what exactly gives the brain these capabilities, btw. Like, we also do not understand yet how it is possible that we can recognize our own thinking processes.
The most competent current AI models mimic one aspect of the brain which is neural pathways. In our brain it’s an activity threshold and in a neural network AI it’s statistics which decide whether a certain path is active or not and then it crosses with other paths, etc. Like a very complex decision tree.
So that is quite similar between AI and brains. But we actually get something like an understanding of concepts that goes beyond the decision tree but isn’t fully understood yet, as described above.
For an AI to be actually intelligent it would probably need to at least get this ability, to trace back it’s own way through the decision tree. Maybe it even turns out that you in fact do need a consciousness to have reason.
pirat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As in AGI?
Admax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve seen it refered to as AGI bit I think itns wrong. Chat GPT isnt intelligent in the slightest, it only makes guesses on what word is statistically more likely comming up next. There is no thikinking or problem solving involved.
A while ago I saw an article that with a tittle along the lines of “spark of AGI in ChatGPT 4” because it chose to use a calculator tool when facing a problme that required one. That would be AI (and not AGI). It has a problem, it learns and uses available tools to solve it.
AGI would be on a whole other level.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The argument “it just predicts the most likely next word” while true massively under values what it even means to predict the next word or token. Largely these predictions are based on sentences and ideas the model has trained on from its data sets. It’s pretty intelligent if you think about it. You read a text book then when you apply the knowledge or take a test you use what you read to form a new sentence in relation to the context of the question or problem. For the models “text prediction” to be correct it has to understand certain relationships between complex ideas and objects to some capacity. Yes it absolutely is not as good as human intelligence. But what it’s doing is much more advanced then text to type on your phone keyboard. It’s a step in the right direction, over hyped right now but the hype is funneling cash into research. The models are already getting more advanced. Right now half of what it says is hot garbage but it can be pretty accurate.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, INT.
zorblitz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What is that?