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[–] 4 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

but it was not ai

It's as much AI as when they made the chess computer that beat Kasparov, it's just not a very sophisticated AI.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

    its not ai. its not on the cutting edge of the field of researching ai. its not progress. it does not get us closer. it does not tell us anything about ourselves or information science we didn't learn from satoshi nakamoto or Adolph Hitler years earlier.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    If we fix the name, it will not change what it does, and it probably won't fix how people use and feel about it. "Really Good Guessing Machine" is less marketable than "Artificial Intelligence", and much closer to the truth, but CEOs would be willing to take credit for laying off 20% of their workforce because they have RGGM now.

    Maybe "Predictive Token Gamble", to convey that all it does is predict tokens, and each output, each use case, and the entire industry as a whole is a gamble... "PTG reduced our human capital expenditure by 20%" still goes a long way, though.

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