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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    111·
    8 hours ago

    Please everyone, consider calling “AI” something more accurate – they’re not intelligent, though definitely ‘artificial’ as in man-made. I personally like the terms “stochastic parrot” or even just “LLM”.

    • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      5 hours ago

      AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it’s technically incorrect to conflate the two.

      Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others. “GenAI” is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.

      That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it’s incorrect to call this “AI”, good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.

      • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others.

        Fair point. I haven’t heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.