Comment by mayama
4 hours ago
> AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially.
AI in pop culture doesn't mean that at all. Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics. Now, that LLMs have taken over the world, they can define AI as anything they want.
In 2018, ie “pre-LLM”, the label “AI” was already stamped to everything, so I highly doubt that most people thought that their washing machines are sentient in any way. I remember this starkly, because my team was responsible at Ericsson (that time, about 120k employees) for one of the crucial step to have models in production, and basically every single project wanted that stamp.
The shift in meaning has been slowly diluted more and more across decades.
> Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics.
I'll reveal you a secret: "positronic brains" are just very fast parallel computers running LLMs.