We'd do better to stop conflating AI with machine learning. Machine learning can be one way to create AI, but it doesn't end there.
What would be some other examples?
Graphical/statistical methods, knowledge based, etc
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says (2021)
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#12AI Is the PERFECT name for all of this stuff. Artificial Intelligence. He's arguing because it's artificial it shouldn't be called artificial.
> He's arguing because it's artificial it shouldn't be called artificial.
No, he's arguing that it shouldn't be called intelligent because it is not.
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#13We'd do better to stop conflating AI with machine learning. Machine learning can be one way to create AI, but it doesn't end there.
What would be some other examples?
Well, the canonical example of an AI has always been something that can play chess. We have devised numerous methods of artificially playing chess without needing to employ machine learning.
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#14This article has aged very poorly. It's hard to look at LLMs and argue they don't have reasoning capability.
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#15AI Is the PERFECT name for all of this stuff. Artificial Intelligence. He's arguing because it's artificial it shouldn't be called artificial.
He's arguing that AI should be closer to what the public calls AGI. The semantics are important here, since people think that LLMs like chatGPT have intellect, and some have even gone so far as to tie an IQ to it.
The truth is that the model has no intelligence, but can do what we attribute to humans intelligence. Alike to how computers were deemed intelligent by the public for doing fast mathematics, computers still cannot think. There is no self-reflection, agency, or abstract thought.
Also, for readers, this person is often regarded as the equivalent of Michael Jordan (the NBA player) of AI. He's a superstar in the field, so it's safe to take his word with considerable weight.
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#16This article has aged very poorly. It's hard to look at LLMs and argue they don't have reasoning capability.
They don't have any reasoning capability. There is nowhere in their architecture that would give them the ability to reason.
All they do is predict what would be the most likely word to go next in the sentence, considering the current text and the input text.
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#17Stop calling everything a robot while you are at it.
Once marketing folk get their paws on terms they can lose or expand their meaning. It's just the way it is.
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#18AI should be synonymous with machine sentience IMHO - anything less is corporate advertising.
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#19Reminds me of cryptographers asking people to stop calling things "crypto". I imagine these pleas will be just as successful.
The field of cryptozoology has never recovered from Bitcoin.
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#20We'd do better to stop conflating AI with machine learning. Machine learning can be one way to create AI, but it doesn't end there.
I think you missed the point of the article. What he says is AI is more alike to what the public calls AGI.