alt Hacker NewsOut-of-hand dismissal of Terence Tao is certainly a take.
And the term "artificial intelligence (AI)" has been the name of the field for 70 years and counting. If anything, "LLM" is a misnomer that's been lingering around since 2018-19. When the term was coined, these systems were relatively small, experimental, and could only produce impractical facsimiles of the English language. This is obviously no longer the case today.
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qsera • yesterday at 11:35 PM
>This is obviously no longer the case today.
Advancement in capability does not mean the mechanism is the different. The LLM name denotes a very specific mechanism..
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"artificial intelligence" is a vague and moving target. I'm not sure I would call that "a field".
It's been used to talk about computers playing chess, then machine learning, and now LLM-based systems.