Comment by aurareturn

Comment by aurareturn 3 days ago

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>* Claiming it's predictive text engine that isn't useful for anything

This one is very common on HN and it's baffling. Even if it's predictive text, who the hell cares if it achieves its goals? If an LLM is actually a bunch of dolphins typing on a keyboard made for dolphins, I could care less if it does what I need it to do. For people who continue to repeat this on HN, why? I just want to know out of my curiosity.

>* AI will never be able to [some pretty achievable task]

Also very common on HN.

You forgot the "AI will never be able to do what a human can do in the exact way a human does it so AI will never achieve x".

HarHarVeryFunny 3 days ago

> Even if it's predictive text, who the hell cares if it achieves its goals?

Haha ... well in the literal sense it does achieve "its" goals, since it only had one goal which was to minimize its training loss. Mission accomplished!

OTOH, if you mean achieving the user's goals, then it rather depends on what those goals are. If the goal is to save you typing when coding, even if you need to check it all yourself anyway, then I guess mission accomplished there too!

Whoopee! AGI done! Thanks you Dolphins!

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peterhadlaw 3 days ago

I think it's less about what it is, but what it claims to be. "Artificial Intelligence"... It's not. Dolphin keyboard squad (DKS), then sure.

The "just fancy autocomplete" is in response, but a criticism

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  • aurareturn 3 days ago

    What's wrong with the phrase "artificial intelligence"? To me, it doesn't imply that it's human-like. It's just human created intelligence to me.

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    • danparsonson 3 days ago

      Partly because "artificial intelligence" is a loaded phrase which brings implications of AGI along for the ride, partly because "intelligence" is not a well defined term, so an artificial version of it could be argued to be almost anything, and partly because even if you lean on the colloquial understanding of what "intelligence" is, ChatGPT (and its friends) still isn't it. It's a Chinese Room - or a stochastic parrot.

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      • aurareturn 3 days ago

        Do people really associate AI with AGI?

        Because we've been using "AI" to describe things many years before AGI became mainstream. Companies used to use "AI" to describe basic ML algorithms.

        When I see "AI", I just think it's some sort of NL or ML. I never think it's AGI. AGI is AGI.

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