Comment by ck2

I've found the best way to explain what LLM "AI" actually is to people who know nothing about computers despite hunching over their smartphone 12 hours a day

Is to point how typing corrections and suggestions work because they get that and how it makes mistakes "damn you autocorrect"

Then explain that's almost how words are stitched together in "AI"

And how pixels are manipulated to make photos and video

Just on an exponential level over autocorrect with every existing text document, scientific study, every photo and video fed in instead of words to autocorrect

And why they make mistakes and hallucinate if they are not supervised and harnessed

We are a long way from AGI, at least not this decade

(and someone really needs to explain that to the orange idiot too)