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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'"
-Pamela McCorduck

"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."
- Larry Tesler

That's the curse of the AI Effect.
Nothing will ever be "an actual AI" until we cross the barrier to an actual human-like general artificial intelligence like Cortana from Halo, and even then people will claim it isn't actually intelligent.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I think intelligence requires the ability to integrate new information into one's knowledge base. LLMs can't do that, they have to be trained on a fixed corpus.

Also, LLMs have a pretty shit-tastic track record of being able to differentiate correct data from bullshit, which is a pretty essential facet of intelligence IMO

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

LLMs have a perfect track record of doing exactly what they were designed to, take an input and create a plausible output that looks like it was written by a human. They just completely lack the part in the middle that properly understands what it gets as the input and makes sure the output is factually correct, because if it did have that then it wouldn't be an LLM any more, it would be an AGI.
The "artificial" in AI does also stand for the meaning of "fake" - something that looks and feels like it is intelligent, but actually isn't.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well at least until those who study intelligence and self-awareness actually come up with a comprehensive definition for it. Something we don't even have currently. Which makes the situation even more silly. The people selling LLMs and AGNs as artificial intelligence are the PT Barnum of the modern era. This way to the egress folks come see the magnificent egress!

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sometimes it seems like the biggest success of AI has been refining the definition of intelligence. But we still have a long way to go