I don’t see you’re getting my point. The term AI doesn’t mean anything anymore. Marketing people clumped everything that uses theory-free inference under one umbrella, of course some of that stuff will be useful. But when people talk about AI right now, they talk about LLM chatbots, even though 3 years ago they were talking about image recognition, and 3 years before that it was protein folding, and 3 years prior it were NPCs in videogames. They do it so when we point out how bad LLM-powered chatbots are, everyone was like “um actually it’s not that bad because alphafold will cure cancer any day now”.
It’s like if a corporation gives the same name to the barrels of raw sewage they sell, but also cans of soup for some reason, and they put their raw sewage everywhere against our will, and everytime someone complains how much they hate barrels of raw sewage everywhere, you can say “but actually, I had raw sewage yesterday, and it was pretty good, I especially like the tomato one”.
Or alternatively: you’re watching people get sprayed by police water cannons and you’re asking the people around you not to condemn them because fire engines also exist.
I don’t see you’re getting my point. The term AI doesn’t mean anything anymore. Marketing people clumped everything that uses theory-free inference under one umbrella, of course some of that stuff will be useful. But when people talk about AI right now, they talk about LLM chatbots, even though 3 years ago they were talking about image recognition, and 3 years before that it was protein folding, and 3 years prior it were NPCs in videogames. They do it so when we point out how bad LLM-powered chatbots are, everyone was like “um actually it’s not that bad because alphafold will cure cancer any day now”.
It’s like if a corporation gives the same name to the barrels of raw sewage they sell, but also cans of soup for some reason, and they put their raw sewage everywhere against our will, and everytime someone complains how much they hate barrels of raw sewage everywhere, you can say “but actually, I had raw sewage yesterday, and it was pretty good, I especially like the tomato one”.
Or alternatively: you’re watching people get sprayed by police water cannons and you’re asking the people around you not to condemn them because fire engines also exist.