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by gwervc 812 days ago
I agree. LLM almost-solve a traditional NLP task which text generation. Calling that intelligence gives the wrong idea about the tech application. That's no reasoning in generated text, what is amazing is that the output is linguistically correct.

Prolog, ontologies, computer vision, deep learning, classifiers, etc. all have been called AI despite being very different things and their inherent limitations. At this point AI is just a label thrown at the newest cool tech.

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> what is amazing is that the output is linguistically correct.

Right, and I am not being critical of the technology to diminish this achievement. It is a great achievement.

But it feels like we have moved so far past it being "just" an "LLM" to already considering it a general purpose AI when it just simply isn't.

The problem is it fakes it enough, in enough situations, that a lot of people seem to come to the conclusion it is.