I've been working on an internal project for my job - a quarterly report on the most bleeding edge use cases of AI, and the stuff achieved is genuinely really impressive.
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This is the issue with current public discourse though. AI has become shorthand for the current GenAI hypecycle, meaning for many AI has become a subset of ML.
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LLMs could be useful for translation between programming languages. I asked it to recently for server code given a client code in a different language and the LLM generated code was spot on!
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Exactly - I find AI tools very useful and they save me quite a bit of time, but they're still tools. Better at some things than others, but the bottom line is that they're dependent on the person using them. Plus the more limited the problem scope, the better they can be.
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Yes, but the problem is that a lot of these AI tools are very easy to use, but the people using them are often ill-equipped to judge the quality of the result. So you have people who are given a task to do, and they choose an AI tool to do it and then call it done, but the result is bad and they can't tell.
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True, though this applies to most tools, no? For instance, I'm forced to sit through horrible presentations beause someone were given a task to do, they created a Powerpoint (badly) and gave a presentation (badly). I don't know if this is inherently a problem with AI...
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What are you talking about? I read the papers published in mathematical and scientific journals and summarize the results in a newsletter. As long as you know equivalent undergrad statistics, calculus and algebra anyone can read them, you don't need a qualification, you could just Google each term you're unfamiliar with.
While I understand your objection to the nomenclature, in this particular context all major AI-production houses including those only using them as internal tools to achieve other outcomes (e.g. NVIDIA) count LLMs as part of their AI collateral.
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I remain skeptical of using solely LLMs for this, but it might be relevant: DARPA is looking into their usage for C to Rust translation. See the TRACTOR program.
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The mechanism of machine learning based on training data as used by LLMs is at its core statistics without contextual understanding, the output is therefore only statistically predictable but not reliable.
Labeling this as "AI" is misleading at best, directly undermining democracy and freedom in practice, because the impressively intelligent looking output leads naive people to believe the software knows what it is talking about.People who condone the use of the term "AI" for this kind of statistical approach are naive at best, snake oil vendors or straightout enemies of humanity.
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No and if you label statistics as AI you contribute to the destruction of civil rights by lying to people.
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Can you name a company who has produced an LLM that doesn't refer to it generally as part of "AI"?
can you name a company who produces AI tools that doesn't have an LLM as part of its "AI" suite of tools?
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How do those examples not fall into the category "snake oil vendor"?
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what would they have to produce to not be snake oil?
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Wrong question. "What would they have to market it as?" -> LLMs / machine learning / pattern recognition
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Wouldn't you just take issue with whatever the new name for it was instead? "Calling it pattern recognition is snake oil, it has no cognition" etc