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.


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’