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
@simon Doesn’t this just re-establish the same problem? AGI isn’t a well-known term, so you’re still left defining the terms of the debate you’re hoping to avoid in order to avoid misleading the reader.
@futuraprime maybe!
My hunch is that it's easier to teach people that new term than convive them to reject a term that everyone else in society is already using
@simon Yeah, that’s fair. Certainly everyone equates LLMs with AI.
The other part of my reluctance is that lots of people are trying to broaden the term to capitalise on it—I’ve seen “AI” applied to all sorts of unsupervised learning tasks to make them sound fancier. The gulf between someone’s random forest classifier and GPT4 is so huge it makes me want to be more specific.
@futuraprime I was tasked with delivering a recommendation system a while ago, and the product owners REALLY wanted it to use machine learning and AI... I eventually realized that what they wanted was "an algorithm", so I got something pretty decent working with a pretty dumb Elasticsearch query plus a little bit of SQL