I wish the term “AI” would die. It’s so unhelpful to understanding these programmes, and that’s exactly why these bazinga-brained tech nerds love it so much. Can’t have a conversation about the real-world effects of these things if half your audience thinks they’re talking about baby HAL 9000.
Pattern Engines. That’s what I’ve been thinking of these as. You feed enough sample pattern into it, and it spits out more of that pattern. “Large language model” is good, but that only covers the text. Pattern Engines work off of any pattern you set them up for; text, picture, audio, video.
The most bazinga of bazingas refuse to accept that and try to descriptively reduce human beings into “meat” LLMs so that their fantastical computer waifu helpmeets feel that much closer to reality.
I wish the term “AI” would die. It’s so unhelpful to understanding these programmes, and that’s exactly why these bazinga-brained tech nerds love it so much. Can’t have a conversation about the real-world effects of these things if half your audience thinks they’re talking about baby HAL 9000.
Pattern Engines. That’s what I’ve been thinking of these as. You feed enough sample pattern into it, and it spits out more of that pattern. “Large language model” is good, but that only covers the text. Pattern Engines work off of any pattern you set them up for; text, picture, audio, video.i like “very fancy predictive text” myself
Over-applied Statistics.
The most bazinga of bazingas refuse to accept that and try to descriptively reduce human beings into “meat” LLMs so that their fantastical computer waifu helpmeets feel that much closer to reality.