• 0laura@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    it’s a good term, it refers to lots of thinks. there are many terms like that.

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      4 months ago

      it refers to lots of thinks

      So it’s a bad term.

      • 0laura@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        the word program refers to even more things and no one says it’s a bad word.

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        4 months ago

        It’s literally the name of the field of study. Chances are this uses the same thing as LLMs. Aka a neutral network, which are some of the oldest AIs around.

        It refers to anything that simulates intelligence. They are using the correct word. People just misunderstand it.

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          4 months ago

          If people consistently misunderstand it, it’s a bad term for communicating the concept.

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            4 months ago

            It’s the correct term though.

            It’s like when people get confused about what a scientific theory is. We still call it the theory of gravity.

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      4 months ago

      The problem is that it refers to so many and constantly changing things that it doesn’t refer to anything specific in the end. You can replace the word “AI” in any sentence with the word “magic” and it basically says the same thing…