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AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds
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LLMs == AGI was and continues to be a massive lie perpetuated by tech companies and investors that people still have not woken up to.
The fact that we even had to start using the term AGI when in common parlance AI always meant the same up until recently, shows how goal posts are being moved.
What people mean by AI has been changing for as long as the term has been used. When I was studying CS in the 80s, people said the holy grail was giving a computer printed English text and having it read it aloud. It wasn't much later that OCR and text to speech software was commonplace.
Generally, when people say AI, they mean a computer doing something that normally takes a human, and that bar goes up all the time.
It might also be a question of how we define “intelligence”. We really don’t have a clear definition and it’s a moving target as we find out more
To a degree, but, like, video game ai has been called that for decades, I don't think anyone ever thought it was agi. It's a more specific term, and it saw use before the big LLM craze started
The thing with 'common parlance' is that it's used by people without a deep understanding of the subject. Among AI researchers, there’s never been confusion about this. We have different terms for different things for a reason. The term AGI has been around since the early 2000s.
It's like complaining about the terms jig, spoon, spinner, and fly, and saying that back in the day, we just called them fishing lures. They are fishing lures, but these terms describe different types. Similarly, AGI is a form of AI, but it refers to a specific kind.
Who is claiming that LLMs are generally intelligent? Is it just "they" or can you actually name a company?
You mean the stuff currently peddled everywhere as "Artificial intelligence"?
Yeah, nobody is saying they are intelligent
AI and AGI are not the same thing.
A chess playing robot is intelligent but it's so called "narrow intelligence" because it's really good at one thing but that doesn't translate to other things. Human are generally intelligent because we can perform a wide range of cognitive tasks. There's nothing wrong at calling LLM an AI because that's what it is. I'm not aware of a single AI company claiming to posses an AGI system.
Yes, I missed the implied meaning when you said "generally intelligent"
In game NPC actions have been called "AI" for decades. Computers playing chess has been called AI for decades. Lots of stuff has been.
Nobody thought they were genuinely sentient or sapient.
The fact that people lumped LLMs, text-to-image generators, machine learning algorithms, image recognition algorithms, etc into a category and called it "AI" doesn't mean they think it is self aware or intelligent in the way a human would be.
The person I replied to said nobody was claiming LLMs were intelligent. I just posted that the people behind the push for this overhyped bubble are indeed making that claim
Whether people believe it is something else. But also, many people do believe it
He said generally intelligent, In the context of the first reply using the term AGI. There is a difference between artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence.
I see... At first read I thought the generally was implying somewhat. I missed the meaning in aGi
I think the idea is that every company is dumping money into LLMs and no other form of alternative AI development to the point that all AI research is LLM based and therefore to investors and those involved, it’s effectively the only only avenue to AGI, though that’s likely not true