Who said anything about Microsoft working on them? But yes, Microsoft is probably also working on those…

And that is exactly the point. Don’t blanket bitch about AI when you only mean a tiny subset of AI, that happens to have become a fad.

Ok let’s say

Cars <-> cybertruck 

Same as:

AI <-> LLMs 

If Tesla makes a shitty car, does that make all other cars from other manufacturers that have come before it and will come after it also shitty? Why do you say: AI is shit when LLM’s and the like are shit, and not cars are shit when the Cybertruck is shit?

(Ok not a perfect example because Cybertrucks aren’t as popular, but you get the idea).

And there is not just a handful of good applications. They’re just not consumer models and are used in certain fields as I mentioned before. As a whole, the number of ML algorithms still vastly outnumber the LLM’s and the like. That may shift now everyone and their mother is making an “AI”. But for now, let’s stick to the facts.

This is the technology community after all…

Mate. You can argue with me all you want but you can’t change the definition, no matter how much you like to be right. Please look up a definition before you start arguing it and calling other people’s comment bullshit.

Your second paragraph is exactly my point. It’s not helpful to call LLM’s and solely LLM’s AI. Because they are not what it encompasses. And every time you use the term the wrong way you help erode it.

I can also assure you that outside tech bros and fad followers the term AI is still very much alive. And it is used just the way it was before LLMs.

So you can at least try to use the correct terms in a technology community and not blanket hate on AI that is still very helpful and very different from LLM’s, but still, very definitely AI according to the definition.