Comment by 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
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.
It's a Chinese Room - or a stochastic parrot.
Show me a resident of a Chinese Room who can do this: https://chatgpt.com/share/66e83ff0-76b4-800b-b33b-910d267a75...
The Chinese Room metaphor was always beneath Searle's intellectual level of play, and it hasn't exactly gotten more insightful with age.
I understand and agree that ChatGPT achieves impressive results but your appeal to incredulity doesn't make it anything more than it is I'm afraid.
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.
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.