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by theonemind 1119 days ago
AI could mean a lot of things. For the sake of clarity, I generally won't refer to GPT as AI. I usually think of the way Richard Stallman wrote about "intellectual property" meaning copyright, patents, and trademarks. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html .

Using grossly generic terms without distinctions seems to benefit those that want to misrepresent things by using concepts not fully applicable across the gross generic category for their self-interested part of the category, for hype or manipulation.

Currently, people want GPT to take on the luster of a mythical AGI by using the categorical term "AI", so I just call it GPT/LLM. I'll consider "AI" a field of research, not an adjective or noun suitable for products based on research from the field.