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That's too bad, because "AI" as it stands, and what is branded as "AI," is not what it claims to be on the label. There are certainly scientific efforts underway to make rudimentary versions of that, but large language models and related technology simply isn't it, and to believe otherwise is marketing, whether you accept it or not.
Again, you're believing in the marketing.
https://bigthink.com/the-future/artificial-general-intelligence-true-ai/
https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6980134/ai-llm-not-sentient/
You're not sorry, this isn't /r/Futurology or /r/Singularity, and the closer to your post only makes it worse.
Even more and there's so much more text to read. Here we go.
Maybe stop ignoring entire fields of research that, to this date, are still figuring out what biological brains are doing and how they are doing them instead of just nodding along to what you already want to believe from people that have blinders for anything outside of their field (computers, in this case). It's a case of someone with a hammer seeing everything as a nail, and you buying into that.
More like tired. If you weren't so religiously defensive about the apparent advent of whatever you're hoping for, you'd know that I have on many occasions stated that artificial intelligence is possible and may even be achieved within current lifetimes, but reiterating and refining the currently hyped "AI" product simply isn't it.
It's like if people were trying to develop rocketry to achieve space travel, but you and yours were smugly stating that this particularly sharp knife will cut the heavens open, just you wait.
Well first, brains aren't the only kind of intelligent biological system but they aren't actually trying to 1 for 1 recreate the human brain, or any other brain for that matter, that's just marketing. The generative side of LLM's is what gets the focus in the media but it's really not the most scientifically interesting or what will actually change that much all things considered.
These systems are absolutely fantastic at finding real patterns in chaotic systems. That's where the potential lies.
More like trying to go to the moon with a Civil War era rocket, it is early days yet. But progress is insanely quick.
No arguments there; my issue is the marketing bullshit that wants to call them 1:1 "artificial intelligence" which is an insult and a dismissal of actual ongoing artificial intelligence research projects.
My metaphor was heavy handed, I know. Maybe I should have said it's like trying to fire a bullet at the moon and just expecting more and more gunpowder to do the trick instead of considering a different approach using chemical propulsion.