They're kind of right. LLMs are not general intelligence and there's not much evidence to suggest that LLMs will lead to general intelligence. A lot of the hype around AI is manufactured by VCs and companies that stand to make a lot of money off of the AI branding/hype.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this sounds about right. What was OP implying I’m a bit lost?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

I believe they were implying that a lot of the people who say "it's not real AI it's just an LLM" are simply parroting what they've heard.

Which is a fair point, because AI has never meant "general AI", it's an umbrella term for a wide variety of intelligence like tasks as performed by computers.
Autocorrect on your phone is a type of AI, because it compares what words you type against a database of known words, compares what you typed to those words via a "typo distance", and adds new words to it's database when you overrule it so it doesn't make the same mistake.

It's like saying a motorcycle isn't a real vehicle because a real vehicle has two wings, a roof, and flies through the air filled with hundreds of people.