Any tool can be a hammer if you use it wrong enough.

A good hammer is designed to be a hammer and only used like a hammer.

If you have a fancy new hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  • macniel@feddit.org
    76·
    5 months ago

    calling (mm)LLMs AI is just corpo bullshit. But hey, it’s fancy, right?

      • macniel@feddit.org
        1·
        5 months ago

        pretty sure that they were and still are called Bots though, atleast in the context of first person shooter.

                  • macniel@feddit.org
                    11·
                    5 months ago

                    AI in video games is a distinct subfield and differs from academic AI. It serves to improve the game-player experience rather than machine learning or decision making. During the golden age of arcade video games the idea of AI opponents was largely popularized in the form of graduated difficulty levels, distinct movement patterns, and in-game events dependent on the player’s input.

                    In general, game AI does not, as might be thought and sometimes is depicted to be the case, mean a realization of an artificial person corresponding to an NPC in the manner of the Turing test or an artificial general intelligence.

                    Look further down to see what currently understood AI, aka generative AI, is used for in video games

      • kescusay@lemmy.world
        35·
        5 months ago

        Software developer, here.

        It’s not actually AI. A large language model is essentially autocomplete on steroids. Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neural network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

        I’m not trying to diss LLMs, by the way. Like I said, they can be very useful in some contexts. I use Copilot to assist with coding, for example. Don’t want to write a bunch of boilerplate code? Copilot is excellent for speeding that process up.

        • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
          11·
          5 months ago

          Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neural network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

          But that’s true of all (most ?) neural networks ? Are you saying Neural Networks are not AI and that they can’t learn ?

          NNs don’t retrain while they are being used, they are trained once then they cannot learn new behaviour or correct existing behaviour. If you want to make them better you need to run them a bunch of times, collect and annotate good/bad runs, then re-train them from scratch (or fine-tune them) with this new data. Just like LLMs because LLMs are neural networks.

        • celliern@lemmy.world
          7·
          5 months ago

          LLMs are part of AI, which is a fairly large research domain of math/info, including machine learning among other. God, even linear regression can be classified as AI : that term is reeeally large

          • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23·
            5 months ago

            I mean, I guess the way people use the term “AI” these days, sure, but we’re really beating all specificity out of the term.

            • celliern@lemmy.world
              2·
              5 months ago

              This is a domain research domain that contain statistic methods and knowledge modeling among other. That’s not new, but the fact that this is marketed like that everywhere is new

              AI is really not a specific term. You may refer as global AI, and I suspect that’s what you refer to when you say AI?

        • macniel@feddit.org
          1·
          5 months ago

          Except cell phones or cellular phones refer to the structure a mobile network is built on: a mesh of cell towers.

    • lmaydev@lemmy.world
      93·
      5 months ago

      They are neural networks which are some of the oldest AI tech we have.

      You can hate them, but they are by definition AI.

    • Aa!@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      Complaining that it’s called AI is like complaining that smartphones are called smart. There’s no stopping it, you just end up sounding like an old man yelling at the cloud. (Which isn’t really a cloud, but we still call it that)

      • macniel@feddit.org
        11·
        5 months ago

        Nah, smartphones being actually “smarter” than feature phones as in you can do way more than just basic stuff like calling, messaging people, run a simple calculation, having a calendar etc.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      11·
      5 months ago

      I don’t see the “is not actual AI” argument.

      Since the 80 AI has just been algorithms and proposals for neural networks.

      It never has need to have a “soul” or “be sentient” to be Artificial Intelligence.

      Even a simple Tic Tac Toc opponent algorithm has been called AI without much complaining about it.

      Also AI didn’t got called AI by corporations. That naming for the technology dates from where it was being proposed as concepts in universities.