@glyph @simon I feel like “AI” has a very precise layman’s definition and a very vague practitioner’s definition. To a layman AI means AGI, “a computer that can think like a person.” To a practitioner AI means…? “Statistical ML ish?” “LLMs and PIGs?” “I get more funding if I call this AI?” The public has a very precise definition! That’s so rare. We shouldn’t water it down and say “oh that’s actually A~G~I” for no reason.
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@simon
The less you know the more confident you are. Just ask an LLM.
I intentionally avoid the term AI and advise other technically minded folks to do the same because it is a purely Marketing term. It will never have a meaningful definition.
Everything I've ever worked on to automate tasks with computers in the past 30 years would be called AI today by a Marketing Department despite none of it involving ML.
Their definition is "this term attracts attention and money", oriented around their goal. The lay person hearing it has a definition of "hype buzzword bingo score for Product Name". It doesn't communicate anything.
Elide the term AI from any context in which it gets used to describe something and it should still be just as meaningful. If not, nothing was being said.
Be right back. I'm gonna go hit Tab in my command line so the shell's AI can do what I want for me. 😛