Carrot

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12 year account here, but was accountless for many years before that. Pretty much a lurker on reddit. Here, I don't post much, but I've been trying to add to the conversation as much as possible. I find I get genuine responses from folks, even if we disagree with each other. By the time I left Reddit for the API changes, it had been either jokes, trolls or bots on the biggest subreddits for years, no real genuine discussion anymore.

Not to say it's perfect in the comments around here, but it's a lot better than reddit has been for like, 8+ years

I guess what I'm saying is that the colloquial definition of "AI" hasn't changed with the rise of LLMs. "AI" has been used to mean "computers that can make decisions" for at least 20 years. I don't know if you play video games, but "AI" has been synonymous with "Bot" or "NPC" in that space for a long time now.

When I was in college, I took classes on Artificial Neural Networks, a good several years before LLMs were released to the public. While you wouldn't find it in a textbook, a lot of the students called ANNs "AI".

Hell, the term "Artificial General Intelligence" was coined in 2007 to replace "AI" for the definition you are using, since people had started using "AI" a lot looser. That was 18 years ago, long before LLMs.

I agree that the corporations calling their LLMs AI is misleading and manipulative, hell I even could agree that they shouldn't be allowed to, but let's not pretend that they have changed the definition of AI. That is fundamentally untrue.

I has, but it also has meant a computer "making decisions" for decades as well. I would know, I've been using it that way for 20 years, especially in the gaming space. Playing against bots that even remotely feel like a person is playing has been "playing against the AI"

Don't get me wrong, I agree that the marketing being done today is pretty aggregious, and the folks doing it are 100% being manipulative by using the term "AI" in their marketing, but I don't think they've used the term beyond a meaning it has already had for a long time.

Words have meaning, and the meaning of those words change throughout time, cultures, and even niche circles. In a perfect world, we'd all explain the definition of a word that we are using, but we don't, and we rely on public consensus to determine the meaning of words. People are able to accept this for slang, but for some reason have a hard time accepting that it happens for normal words as well. People have been using AI to mean "any semblance of thought" in tech for a long time. When playing a game against a computer, people have been calling the computer player AI, even back when games were rudimentary.

Of course, I'm as big a hater of AI by the modern definition as anyone, I just think there are a lot of people dying on the hill of "words can't change" when it's a pretty crazy position to hold.

This argument makes no sense to me because the rule that every letter of an acronym has to sound like it does in the start of it's word doesn't apply to other acronyms that people commonly use.

Laser - Light amplification by stimulated emition of radiation. Note that it is commonly pronounced lazer, but the word isn't pronounced ztimulated.

YOLO - You only live once. Note that "once" starts with a "w" sound, but YOLO ends in a ō sound.

SIM (as in SIM card) - subscriber identification module. Note that identification starts with the "eye" sound, but we don't pronounce it sīm.

I could go on, but I think I've made my point

If that's what you want why don't you start your own community instead of being a jerk on one you have no interest in?

I just picked a word at random. I like lemmy because one word usernames aren't a commodity

I get what you're saying, but both work in this case, yours is just more precise. We've just lived in the late 1900s so it feels weird to lump the years we've experienced in with 900+ that we haven't. But if someone says "late 1800s" for something like 1894, it wouldn't feel weird at all.

Things are different here in the US. In a city, cars get lined up and go 0mph. In more rural areas (even only an hour out of a city) it's a lot less likely to have traffic, so cars end up averaging 25-30mph if not more. Especially given that there are usually multiple miles (12 in my case) of road between towns, the cars end up being quite a bit faster unfortunately. Riding a bike will usually 2-5x the time it takes to get anywhere within a 15 mile radius. And because of how big the US is, in rural a 15 mile radius can get me pretty much one town over, two if I'm lucky. I'm not even in that rural a place, only an hour drive from a major city.

You must not live in the US. I don't really use my car these days because I can take the train into work and live close enough to the town center that I can bike there. But to get to the next town over? I have an ebike, and there's a well-kept bike path to the next town over (a very uncommon thing in rural US) and it is still significantly longer to bike than it is to take a car to the next town over. Like, 3-4x longer to bike than drive, even if I'm going 15+ mph on the bike.

They aren't? "Late 1900s" would be the latter 3rd of the century. 1994 would be in that latter third, so they are using it correctly.