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amosstoday at 6:54 AM1 replyview on HN

If you place an LLM into a harness, alongside evaluation, feedback and problem decomposition / solution integration - it is still an LLM?

There is an LLM acting as a component in a larger system. But that larger system is not an LLM. Calling it an "AI" is indeed an act of marketing as there is no learning / adjustment as we would expect from an intelligence, but calling it an LLM seems to be inaccurate. So what is it?


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frozenseventoday at 10:49 AM

>Calling it an "AI" is indeed an act of marketing

Again, this is literally the name of the field (and the tech). It's been around longer than you and probably your parents.

Dartmouth workshop (1956):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

Random dusty undergrad textbook from the early 70s:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816fxHVJkHL._SL1500_.jpg

>there is no learning...

If human-like continual learning is suddenly the standard, you can just as easily say that terms like machine learning and deep learning are an "act of marketing".

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