Yesterday my son asked me what AI means, and if it meant something is fake. He’s young so I didn’t go into the LLM distinction, just defined how “artificial” means yes it’s fake, and “AI generated” just means they asked a computer to make it.
It reminds me of when everything was “cloud cloud cloud!!!” It’s just other people’s computers!
It actually just means you aren’t allowed to know about the servers, so when it turns out your application is running too slowly they can claim your application is poorly optimized and/or you’re simply not paying them enough instead of the reality that they have you and 7,000 other people sharing the same kind of chip that controls a toaster.
I can’t imagine dying on this hill. People have been using the word AI to refer to things that aren’t real artificial intelligence for literally decades. It’s the phrase people use for when a computer does something that mimics intelligence. How come I never hear you people talk about how video game NPCs don’t have AI?
“Actually, that character’s programming is a form of virtual intelligence, not artificial intelligence.”
Is machine learning the problem, though? Like, if someone wrote a program for automating subtitle creation, or at least helping with the tedious aspects of it, and it improved the more you used it, would that be an issue on it’s own? I think that’s why people differentiate between AI, LLM, and ML, because we need ways to distinguish tech that’s being misused/is harmful in it’s current forms vs. tech that is inherently evil in concept alone.
It’s confusing bc nobody fully understands which terms refers to what, myself included, so everyone uses each term for the wrong thing.
LLM, not AI.
Thank you. I make it a very annoying habit to never call these things “AI” and correct others if they do.
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Yesterday my son asked me what AI means, and if it meant something is fake. He’s young so I didn’t go into the LLM distinction, just defined how “artificial” means yes it’s fake, and “AI generated” just means they asked a computer to make it.
It reminds me of when everything was “cloud cloud cloud!!!” It’s just other people’s computers!
Serverless means there are no servers
It actually just means you aren’t allowed to know about the servers, so when it turns out your application is running too slowly they can claim your application is poorly optimized and/or you’re simply not paying them enough instead of the reality that they have you and 7,000 other people sharing the same kind of chip that controls a toaster.
wastebin, not dumpster.
Are image generators like midjourney also LLMs?
They are diffusion models with a language model to understand prompts. What all of the have in common is that they are generative AI.
they are not Generative AI they are Slop Generators
Again, they are not AI. We have not come up with an “AI” yet. What they are, are Machine-Learning, or “ML” models. They are not intelligent.
I can’t imagine dying on this hill. People have been using the word AI to refer to things that aren’t real artificial intelligence for literally decades. It’s the phrase people use for when a computer does something that mimics intelligence. How come I never hear you people talk about how video game NPCs don’t have AI?
“Actually, that character’s programming is a form of virtual intelligence, not artificial intelligence.”
~literally nobody in history
“virtual intelligence” just reminds me of Mass Effect
Also, a lot of the time NPC behavior isn’t even virtual intelligence.
Stupid Goombas walking off a cliff lmao
(He says, while continuing to scroll when he should be going to sleep)
why should we stop using a term that has been used for at least a decade to refer to things much “dumber” than something like gpt 3.5
“It was wrong before so now it’s not wrong anymore”
if people use a word to refer to something for a long time, it means that that something is included in the words definition
Because the name is corpo pr speak to make it sound better than it is. We should not be repeating their lies.
Is machine learning the problem, though? Like, if someone wrote a program for automating subtitle creation, or at least helping with the tedious aspects of it, and it improved the more you used it, would that be an issue on it’s own? I think that’s why people differentiate between AI, LLM, and ML, because we need ways to distinguish tech that’s being misused/is harmful in it’s current forms vs. tech that is inherently evil in concept alone.
It’s confusing bc nobody fully understands which terms refers to what, myself included, so everyone uses each term for the wrong thing.
No
LLMs stand for Large Language Models
They both are generative AI, but that term also includes, as far as i know, vocaloid software too
Yes
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YES