"Stochastic parrot" is a better term.
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Trump is an absolute moron. No one should listen to anything he says, other than his admissions of crimes committed.
And most especially of something of a technical matter. And no, his "genes" don't fucking matter, either, LOL. No one gives a flying fuck who his uncle was.
It’s not even called AI. Im certainly not calling in SI.
I refer to them as either “the LLM” or “the robot” at work and boy howdy the AI bros do not like it
I call them chatbots or fancy autocomplete. LLM maybe for the better coding agents, but that’s still being generous. Slopbots for the music, website, and image generators.
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I refer to them as G.P. This is a somewhat inside joke for those who were in Ontario and watched Tales of the Riverbank on TVO (aka Hammy Hamster) in the 1960's and 70's. Hammy's friend G.P. was a guinea pig. They'd get up to all sorts of adventures. It wasn't a cartoon, but filming of real animals in sets with models and with voice dubbing, and a narrator. They obviously put food down where they wanted the animals to go, and I'm pretty sure they glued the paws to steering wheels and the like sometimes. There was also Martha Mouse, who was clearly a white rat. One time the animals ... oh, but that's another story. (That's how the episodes ended and it was fucking annoying).
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I know this isn't the point of the article, but honestly we shouldn't be using the term "AI" either. By implying that ChatGPT et al are intelligent, even if that's not our intention, we feed into the hype. I found this article proposing alternative, more accurate terms: https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/
Probabilistic Automation is probably the best term for a majority of what the orange buffoon calls "super intelligence".
I hate that this went from "we want to detect cancer early" to "steal and monetize everything".
The tech bros have destroyed the believe everyone had about progress. These days not much people believe more inventions and technology will actually improve our lives.
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The first thing I broach on the topic is that there is no intelligence. It is a language model that uses an algorithm to determine speech and conversation. It is limited to whatever it has scraped from humanity and offers nothing further. Each different LLM has its own predilections and tendencies. Some better than others, but all of it is unintelligent and will confidently tell you a wrong answer. Furthermore, it devolves into hallucinations very quickly. What have I missed or what should I add?
Edit: Article correctly states LLMs should not be anthropomorphized and "hallucination" lends to that. But I feel "undesirable outputs" is too soft even though it does strip the humanity from the LLM.
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Good stuff
artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence
image recognition → image labeling
speech recognition → automatic transcription
the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
model mistakes → model errors
chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
hallucination → undesirable output
goal → success condition
“Stolen intelligence”
Took everything from everyone without their permission and said “I made this!”
Wanna know the new term I made?
Stolen intelligence.
Pretty good, right?
Now we both pay each other the same huge sum of money and tell everyone about all the revenue and investment we have done.
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It's just marketingspeak from a moron who doesn't understand the tech, or it's capabilities.
My understanding is that it's a willful scam to sell .si domains. Of course that doesn't mean he came up with it or that he isn't a moron who doesn't understand.
He doesn't have to be smart to own significant blocks of them. Somebody just has to whisper to him that there's a lot of money to be made.
If lots of people, including powerful people, change what they call something because he told them to, that's just feeding his ego. That's all he's in for at this point. At least this is a grift to also make money off people, I didn't see any way to profit from changing Lake Ontario's name, except maybe as a distraction in the media, and again, his ego.
This makes the most sense. No doubt one of his kids came up with the grift, probably Baron.
Why No One Should Use Trump's Term
Because it's what Trump wants and he made it up on a whim. The fact that people are even entertaining the idea enough to write articles about it is asinine.
And here I am still calling A1.
That's insulting to steak sauce.
I mean, the steak sauce is insulting to steak. Pretty sure it's actually the perfect name.
Again: this is a loyalty test to see who all is loyal to Trump.
Freedom Fries moment
It would seem like "super intelligence" when you're as mentally incapacitated as Trump or MAGA. So would a stale quiche, but I digress.
I saw a suggestion I'd like to second: just call it "Trump intelligence"
Please no. LLMs can usually string together coherent sentences and have a much tighter grasp of reality
Because literally every time he says “actually you should call it [x]” it’s the dumbest thing said that day, only surpassed by other stupid shit he might say.
I swear this fucking buffoon should have just been an explorer or something with how much he just loves naming shit
Most explorers named things that already had names, too.
Cnet is now classified as a terrorist organization
Call it special intelligence and imply it is mentally deficient.
"Why no one should use Trumps term" duh...
Watch, next up the Pedo-in-Chief will state that AI (not calling it the stupid ass term dickless made up) needs to be considered people.
You know, like how businesses are considered people now. You see where this is going...
I GOT SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION VOTES FROM STUPOR INTELLIGENCE!
The agreements between OpenAI and Microsoft hinge on "super intelligence" specifically. In exchange for billions in early investment, OAI has to share it's model tech with MS until ASI is developed.
I wouldn't be surprised if all this is just a power play, with OAI bribing trump to get off the hook.
During his announcement about this the phrase “Artificial makes it sound fake.” I’m sitting at home thinking “thats because it is fake!”
Yes. Now we need people with more money and more of a platform to say this.
His little robot worshippers will.
Well, for Trumps level of intelligence, a parrot with a dictionary must look like it's super intelligent.
May not be super intelligent, but at least it knows who it is.
Look at it from Trump's perspective, though. Even a simple markov chain like eliza is super intelligence compared to what's going on in his brain...
(No, but seriously, this whole SI thing is really just a scam by his handlers to resell Slovenian domains at an inflated price.)
Yeah but what if china invents super duper intelligence what then??
AI is no intelligence None what so ever. You don't really belive these agents that are doing all this 'hacking' are doing it without human input? Do you? If you do I got a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
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