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by ixtli 85 days ago
They’re slowly redefining AGI so they can use it for more marketing. If you showed someone from 1960 our LLMs from and told them “this is AI” I think they’d be astounded but a little confused because “artificial intelligence” definitely carried a very clear meaning in literature and media. Now it is marketing terminology and we’re no closer to having a meaningful definition for the word intelligence.
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astrange 85 days ago
AI has been consistently defined as "anything we can't make a computer do yet" since 1970.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/06/20/not-ai/

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paganel 85 days ago
> They’re slowly redefining AGI so they can use it for more marketing.

If they don't do that then those trillions of dollars that support their current share price will most probably evaporate, so there are very big incentives for them to just outright try and re-create reality (like what we usually meant when we were thinking about artificial intelligence).

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