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I added an extra section to my post proving a better version of the argument as to why we shouldn't call it AI https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/7/call-it-ai/#argument-against

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And another section trying to offer a useful way forward: Let’s tell people it’s “not AGI” instead

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/7/call-it-ai/#not-agi-instead

Let’s tell people it’s “not AGI” instead #

If we’re going to use “Artificial Intelligence” to describe the entire field of machine learning, generative models, deep learning, computer vision and so on... what should we do about the science fiction definition of AI that’s already lodged in people’s heads?

Our goal here is clear: we want people to understand that the LLM-powered tools they are interacting with today aren’t actually anything like the omniscient AIs they’ve seen in science fiction for the past ~150 years.

Thankfully there’s a term that’s a good fit for this goal already: AGI, for “Artificial General Intelligence”. This is generally understood to mean AI that matches or exceeds human intelligence.

AGI itself is vague and infuriatingly hard to define, but in this case I think that’s a feature. “ChatGPT isn’t AGI” is an easy statement to make, and I don’t think is even up for debate.

The term is right there for the taking. “You’re thinking about science fiction there: ChatGPT isn’t AGI, like in the movies. It’s just an AI language model that can predict next tokens to generate text.”

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@simon it's not AI at all. Don't let the push marketing sons of bitches claim the memetic space. "Auto complete at scale" ain't intelligent

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@Seruko I 100% agree that autocomplete at scale isn't intelligent, but I still think "Artificial Intelligence" is an OK term for this field of research, especially since we've been using it to describe non-intelligent artificial systems since the 1950s

I like "AGI" as the term to use for what autocomplete-at-scale definitely isn't

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