AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
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Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#2> Yes, large language models (LLMs) are not actually AI in that they are not actually intelligent, but we’re going to use the common nomenclature here.
I'm sorry for the off-topic comment, but why do I keep seeing this? What am I missing here – is it that some people define intelligence as >= human, or that LLM are not intelligence because they're *just* statistical models?
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#3Browser Extensions Are a Security Nightmare - I guess you can add AI in front to make it seem new.
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#4> Yes, large language models (LLMs) are not actually AI in that they are not actually intelligent, but we’re going to use the common nomenclature here. I'm sorry for the off-topic comment, but why do I keep seeing this? What am I missing here – is it that some people define intelligence as >= human, or that LLM are not intelligence because they're *just* statistical models?
More like intelligence == human. ChatGPT is superhuman in many ways.
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#5Browser Extensions Are a Security Nightmare - I guess you can add AI in front to make it seem new.
Exactly - it blows my mind how normalized the permission Access your data for all websites is (I think it's Read and Change all your data on all websites for Chrome). I use only one or two extensions because of this. Why does a procrastination tool need such an insanely broad permission?
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#6Browser Extensions Are a Security Nightmare - I guess you can add AI in front to make it seem new.
Exactly.
But I think at the moment it's easier to get someone to install an extension as long it mentions GPT or AI.
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#7> Yes, large language models (LLMs) are not actually AI in that they are not actually intelligent, but we’re going to use the common nomenclature here. I'm sorry for the off-topic comment, but why do I keep seeing this? What am I missing here – is it that some people define intelligence as >= human, or that LLM are not intelligence because they're *just* statistical models?
There's long been a divide between what people call hard vs soft AI, or strong vs weak AI, or narrow vs general. The definitions are a bit fuzzy, but generally a hard AI or strong AI would be able to think for itself, develop strategies and skills, maybe have a sense of self. Soft AI in contrast is a mere tool where you put something in and get something out.
Now some people don't like using the term AI for soft/weak/narrow AI, because it's a fleeting definition, mostly applied to things that are novel and that we didn't think computers were able to do. Playing chess used to be considered AI, but a short time after AI beat the human chess world master it was no longer considered AI. If you buy a chess computer capable of beating Magnus Carlsen today that's considered a clever algorithm, no longer AI. You see the same thing playing out in real time right now with LLMs, where they go from AI to "just algorithms" in record time.
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#8> Yes, large language models (LLMs) are not actually AI in that they are not actually intelligent, but we’re going to use the common nomenclature here. I'm sorry for the off-topic comment, but why do I keep seeing this? What am I missing here – is it that some people define intelligence as >= human, or that LLM are not intelligence because they're *just* statistical models?
> LLM are not intelligence because they're just statistical models
This is exactly it for me.
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#9> Yes, large language models (LLMs) are not actually AI in that they are not actually intelligent, but we’re going to use the common nomenclature here. I'm sorry for the off-topic comment, but why do I keep seeing this? What am I missing here – is it that some people define intelligence as >= human, or that LLM are not intelligence because they're *just* statistical models?
Because we don't have a real handle on what "intelligence" actually is, any use of the word without defining it is essentially just noise.
Re: AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
#10> Yes, large language models (LLMs) are not actually AI in that they are not actually intelligent, but we’re going to use the common nomenclature here. I'm sorry for the off-topic comment, but why do I keep seeing this? What am I missing here – is it that some people define intelligence as >= human, or that LLM are not intelligence because they're *just* statistical models?
I think its the "just" statistical models part.
If you pull up the TOC for an AI textbook, you'll find lots of things that aren't "intelligent". Machine learning is just a subset of it. I recall a professor in the AI department back in the 90s working on describing the shape of an object from a photograph (image to text) based on a number of tools (edge detection was one paper I recall).
Also in AI is writing a deductive first order logic solver is covered in there as are min-max trees and constraint satisfaction problems.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~poole/ci/contents.html (note chapter 4)
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Mathematical+Methods+in+Artifici...
People are trying to put a box around "AI" to mean a particular thing - maybe they want AI to mean "artificial general intelligence" rather than all the things that are covered in the intro to AI class in college.
I ultimately believe that trying to use a term that has been very broad for decades to apply to only a small subset of the domain is going to end up being a fruitless Scotsman tilting at windmills.
... And you know what, I think it does a pretty good job at being intelligent. https://chat.openai.com/share/01d760b3-4171-4e28-a23b-0b6565...