Comment by killerstorm
4 hours ago
Intelligence can be defined as an optimization problem: "find X which maximizes F(X, Y)" where X is the solution, Y is constraints, and F is optimality/fitness criterion. Most other definitions are inane. E.g. "invent an aircraft" can be described as optimization over possible build instructions under given constraints for base materials which optimizes its ability to fly. Absolutely any invention can be formulated as an optimization problem.
It's not like a calculator because LLM can solve very broad classes of problems - you'd struggle to define problems which LLM can't solve (given some fine-tuning, harness, KB, etc).
All this talk about "smartness" isn't even particularly cute...
> It's not like a calculator because LLM can solve very broad classes of problems
So can computer programs. Are computer programs intelligent?
A specific program solves only a specific, narrow class of problems.
If you make a program which can solve many different classes of problems that's called AI.
> If you make a program which can solve many different classes of problems that's called AI.
What about Salesforce? That solves a ton of different problems!
And introduces a ton of new problems, too; which is strong evidence that Salesforce is intelligent!