• phaedrus@piefed.world
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    100% this, people say they understand AI is a buzzword, but don’t realize just how large of an umbrella that term actually is.

    Enemy NPCs in video games back to the 80’s fall under AI.

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      The term AI is actually from the 1950s

      The phrase “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy during a workshop at Dartmouth College, where researchers aimed to explore whether machines could think like humans.

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      When most people hear AI they think AGI and because a narrow-AI language model doesn’t perform the way they expect an AGI to they then say stuff like “it’s not intelligent” or “it’s not an AI”

      AI as a term is about as broad as the term “plants” which contains everything from grass to giant redwoods. LLM is just a subcategory like conifers.

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        Exactly. Or, to be more precise to the point of the comment that started this thread:

        Physics is to Chemistry what AI is to LLMs