Comment by eikenberry

15 hours ago

They have a Machine Learning section on the front page. Just have to scroll down a bit, under the "Use Elixir for" section.

I don't think Machine Learning falls under what most people consider "AI" and "LLM" these days, even if they're technically intertwined.

  • How is LLM (a particular area of machine learning) not machine learning? Have people already forgotten the basis for LLMs?

    • The majority of people who use LLMs today never even heard of ML though a non-trivial percentage have heard that modern AI is powered by LLM. You can’t forget what you never knew. Such is the evolution of language when a formerly niche technical concept crosses the chasm to mass awareness.

    • I'd argue there's a qualitative difference between using machine learning for specific data analysis tasks, and using a generic agentic AI system controlled by some corporate entity. The association of the term 'AI' with the latter is increasing.

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  • Machine learning used to be used as a buzzword alongside AI, though nowadays after the release of ChatGPT it seems they've settled on AI.

    • Machine learning used to be considered a subset of AI. AI encompassed any algorithms that exhibited "intelligence" (e.g. a chess engine), while machine learning was scoped to algorithms that required training (e.g. a neural network).

  • In this particular case it means the Nx ecosystem, which is a solid Numpy alternative.