THANK YOU! I studied AI in school, and it always bothers me when people think that LLMs are the only facet of AI. Between 2022-2024, I had a knee jerk reaction of explaining that AI is more than LLMs and that LLMs are really a small subset of the entire universe of AI, yadda yadda yadda. Now I've given up and roll my eyes as someone tries to tell me about the cool new Claude skill they built.

What's funnier is people think I hate LLMs. That couldn't be further from the truth; they are a fantastically interesting and innovative technology! "Attention is All You Need" is a great paper, and super impactful. I just hate that people are outsourcing their thinking to a chatbot and neglect the rest of my field of study.

I’m confused. Aren’t you the one who referred to LLMs In a thread that was conflating LLMs with AI? The parent’s comment seems to be right on point.

It’s kind of like how we’ve lost the war on hacking.

Large language models fall under the current definition of artificial intelligence just as much as Cyc or Cog did in their day, or various expert systems and machine learning models, diffusion models, etc.

Pretty much any non-deterministic inference engine can be classified as an AI, including LLMs.