Please everyone, consider calling “AI” something more accurate – they’re not intelligent, though definitely ‘artificial’ as in man-made. I personally like the terms “stochastic parrot” or even just “LLM”.
AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it’s technically incorrect to conflate the two.
Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others. “GenAI” is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.
That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it’s incorrect to call this “AI”, good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.
Please everyone, consider calling “AI” something more accurate – they’re not intelligent, though definitely ‘artificial’ as in man-made. I personally like the terms “stochastic parrot” or even just “LLM”.
There is also the “Plagurized Information Synthesis System”
AI existed before LLMs. People called NPCs and enemy character patterns “AI”.
AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it’s technically incorrect to conflate the two.
Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others. “GenAI” is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.
That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it’s incorrect to call this “AI”, good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.
Fair point. I haven’t heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.