• RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 hours ago

    Not an expert so I might be wrong, but as far as I understand it, those specialised tools you describe are not even AI. It is all machine learning. Maybe to the end user it doesn’t matter, but people have this idea of an intelligent machine when its more like brute force information feeding into a model system.

    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      Don’t say AI when you mean AGI.

      By definition AI (artificial intelligence) is any algorithm by which a computer system automatically adapts to and learns from its input. That definition also covers conventional algorithms that aren’t even based on neural nets. Machine learning is a subset of that.

      AGI (artifical general intelligence) is the thing you see in movies, people project into their LLM responses and what’s driving this bubble. It is the final goal, and means a system being able to perform everything a human can on at least human level. Pretty much all the actual experts agree we’re a far shot from such a system.

      • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
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        1 hour ago

        It may be too late on this front, but don’t say AI when there isn’t any I to it.

        Of course it could be successfully argued that humans (or at least a large amount of them) are also missing the I, and are just spitting out the words that are expected of them based on the words that have been ingrained in them.

        • celliern@lemmy.world
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          50 minutes ago

          This is not up to you or me : AI is an area of expertise / a scientific field with a precise definition. Large, but well defined.