Comment by brk
2 days ago
FWIW, I do a lot of talks about AI in the physical security domain and this is how I often describe AI, at least in terms of what is available today. Compared to humans, AI is not very smart, but it is tireless and able to recall data with essentially perfect accuracy.
It is easy to mistake the speed, accuracy, and scope of training data for "intelligence", but it's really just more like a tireless 5th grader.
Something I have found quite amusing about LLMs is that they are computers that don't have perfect recall - unlike every other computer for the past 60+ years.
That is finally starting to change now that they have reliable(ish) search tools and are getting better at using them.