You're confusing AI and AGI.CrystalWizard wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:16 am AI, NS... there is machine learning. When a machine becomes sentient you will have many seconds left to enjoy.
AI makes for good copy, though. Sure it sells well.
AI is just a name for a sub-field of Computer Science that encompasses many things, from LISP and Prolog, through Fuzzy Logic microcontrollers, through Decision Support Systems to Neural Networks and Deep Learning.
The only questionable thing would be whether old style static gradient descent machine learning stuff like Kalman Filters and suggestion systems and economenttics are AI (they're not), because if they are then analog modelling using solvers is AI.
Generators/Transformers, and therefore LLMs are Neural Networks, therefore it is AI.
AI doesn't mean "sentient machines", that's just a media and science fiction trope. It means computing that uses models of human intelligence to compute in different ways, that are not just direct applications of boolean logic and Turing/Von Neumann machines.
