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The semantic debate over the label “AI” continues. While I think some of these concerns of AI for haphazardly inserted llms or other learning algorithms inserted into a product might have some merit i think ultimately it might fail to recognize the source of the problem isnt in bad use of labels but is fundamental to label usage itself. The ship of Theseus conundrum has some lessons applicable to this. really its easy to point a label at tangible visual stuff, but pointing a label at more ephemeral stuff creates all manners of issues. First i’d be willing to say this following statement is true: ‘humans invented object identities and invented the labels, and also both the label machine and the labels pointing at identities they want to label’, well i guess darwin invented the machinery but humans willfully made the first use out of the machinery for that purpose. if humans choose to make labels and define where labels are applicable, theres never going to be an objective true valid standard sense of a word, except by convention but even that rests on ‘objective’ quicksand, unfortunately. beyond an argument on linguistics and the philosophy of language, that still leaves the substances of intelligence itself. while llms have clear huge gaps in inadequacies, i suspect its not far off from human capabilities by algorithm adjustments, adding architecture modularly (like reasoning), and ultimately through distillation and transfer learning, plus new techniques. Because of that, even dumb haphazardly shoehorned llms might surprisingly be closer to intelligence (or a core component thereof) than what even the most ardent semantic nazis would consider ( or archnemesis to LLms, PhD, Gary Marcus, orrrr also famous naysayer and contrarian, Yann Lecunn). 300 years on the exponential singularity timescale might actually be 5 to 10 years. but maybe it might be akin to TV standards of black before TVs became capable of true black. grey was black until oleds and now previous tv formats of black, aka really grey, can now retroactively be reclassified as grey.
or how about usage of the words unlimited when it comes to cellular data. those naughty marketers and their definition bending usage of words. |