AI isn’t any one thing. It’s an broad term used in computer science to refer to any system designed to perform a cognitive task that would normally require human intelligence. The chess opponent on an old Atari console is an AI. It’s an intelligent system - but only narrowly so. That’s called “narrow” or “weak” AI.
It can still have superhuman abilities, but only within the specific task it was built for - like playing chess or generating language.
A large language model like ChatGPT is also narrow AI. It’s exceptionally good at what it was designed to do: generate natural-sounding language. What people expect from it, though, isn’t narrow intelligence - it’s general intelligence. The ability to apply cognitive skills across a wide range of domains the way a human can. That’s something LLMs simply can’t do - at least not yet. Artificial General Intelligence is the end goal for many AI companies, but LLMs are not generally intelligent. However they still fall under the umbrella of AI as a broad category of systems.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I see no goal post here. That argument was true when it came to game playing. Tic-tac-toe, then checkers, then chess, then go, then Jeopardy…
The bar kept getting raised because we kept saying yes there’s an intelligent game called x and once we beat it that is a sign of intelligence.
No one ever claimed that these word salad generating, suda racist, plagiarism machines that are frequently wrong were actual AGI.
If a goal post is to be established, it’s got to be much more robust than the bullshiy that we’re seeing now.