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I think one of the biggest mistakes we have made as an industry is conflating the words “AI” and “LLMs.” The irony is right there on the surface. Naming is one of the hardest things to do in software, and we’ve done it poorly for the primary tool of software.

  • TheV2@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    AGI is just a type of AI. It’s a term coined long after AI that doesn’t define new goals and capabilities that weren’t already part of AI research, except that they were rather abandoned. If anything, “AGI” was the marketing term to revitalize and focus on those ideals. So there is nothing wrong with the general public to associate “AI” with what you would specifically describe as “AGI”.

    Furthermore, I don’t understand what this public perception has to do with your claim. If they thought of only narrow AI, then would it not make even more sense to call their LLM-based products AI…

    • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      AGI is a subcategory of AI just like LLMs and diffusion models are. That term has existed since 1997 and was coined by Mark Avrum Gubrud in an article named ‘Nanotechnology and international security’

      By advanced artificial general intelligence, I mean AI systems that rival or surpass the human brain in complexity and speed, that can acquire, manipulate and reason with general knowledge, and that are usable in essentially any phase of industrial or military operations where a human intelligence would otherwise be needed. Such systems may be modeled on the human brain, but they do not necessarily have to be, and they do not have to be “conscious” or possess any other competence that is not strictly relevant to their application. What matters is that such systems can be used to replace human brains in tasks ranging from organizing and running a mine or a factory to piloting an airplane, analyzing intelligence data or planning a battle.