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AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall (futurism.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LLMs are AI in the same way that the lane assist on my car is AI. Tech companies, however, very carefully and deliberately play up LLMs as being AGI or close to it. See for example toe convenient fear-mongering over the "risks" of AI, as though ChatGPT will become Skynet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

LLMs are AI as it is defined in Computer Science, not SciFi. And the lane assist on your car might also be, although it may just be a well tuned PID for all I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I agree, but the problem is that the media (encouraged by tech companies) use the sci-fi definition, and the layman doesn't know any better.