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Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI (Artificial Intelligence)?

Real AI does not exist yet,
atm we only have LLMs (Large Language Models),
which do not think on their own,
but pass turing tests
(fool humans into thinking that they can think).

Imo AI is just a marketing buzzword,
created by rich capitalistic a-holes,
who already invested in LLM stocks,
and now are looking for a profit.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 9 months ago (22 children)

The word "AI" has been used for way longer than the current LLM trend, even for fairly trivial things like enemy AI in video games. How would you even define a computer "thinking on its own"?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (19 children)

I think a good metric is once computers start getting depression.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Not sure about that. A LLM could show symptoms of depression by mimicking depressed texts it was fed. A computer with a true consciousness might never get depression, because it has none of the hormones influencing our brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Me: Pretend you have depression

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Give it the right dataset and you could easily create a depressed sounding LLM to rival Marvin the paranoid android.

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