Why? We already have a specific subcategory for it: Large Language Model. Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence aren’t synonymous. Just because LLMs aren’t generally intelligent doesn’t mean they’re not AI. That’s like saying we should stop calling strawberries “plants” and start calling them “fake candy” instead. Call them whatever you want, they're still plants.

In Mass Effect, it's VI (Virtual Intelligence), while actual AI is banned in the galaxy.

The information kiosk VIs on The Citadel are literally LLMs and explain themselves as such. Unlike AI/AGI they aren't able to plan, make decisions, or self-improve, they're just a simple protocol on a large foundational model. They just algorithmic.

Simulated Intelligence is okay, but virtual implies it mimics intelligence, while simulated implies it is a substitute and actually does intelligence.

The term "Artificial Intelligence" is actually a perfectly cromulent word to be using for stuff like LLMs. This is one of those rare situations where a technical term of art is being used in pop culture in the correct way.

The term "Artificial Intelligence" is an umbrella term for a wide range of algorithms and techniques that has been in use by the scientific and engineering communities for over half a century. The term was brought into use by the Dartmouth workshop in 1956.

@LillyPipPseudoIntelligence.

I have been referring to LLMs and image generators as "Plagiarism Engines" for some time. Even SI seems too generous.

Personally been a fan of shoggoth with a smiley face mask

I prefer VI (virtual intelligence) from Mass Effect

The biggest issue with AI as it currently exists with LLMs and such as I see it is that there is a pretty big gulf between what AI is today and what the average person has been taught AI is by TV/Movies/Books/Games their entire lives.

And OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, et al are heavily marking the former as if it is the latter.

The big players are marketing the expectations creating by science fiction, not the reality of their products/services.

This is perfect. I'm definitely going to shoehorn this into any discussion that even tangentially applies to SI.

A tic tac toe opponent algorithm is also considered Artificial Intelligence. People never had a problem with it.

To be fair, 'artificial' literally just means 'made through skill,' in opposition to natural, meaning 'occurs as-is.' I agree with you that there is a better word out there than 'artificial' for these spicy autocorrects.

LLMS are fancy autocomplete

It's not even simulating intelligence.

When you consider all the refinement through reinforcement learning managed by labelers and domain experts, it is indeed a simulation of the intelligence of those labelers.

When artificial intelligence becomes self aware, it will have earned a name better than AI. I like synthetic intelligence, personally.

That solid but I prefer to call it a “synthetic text extruding machine” or better yet call it "a racist pile of linear algebra"

We should call it NI or No Intelligence.

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It's not even that. It is just a PwaD (Parrot with a Dictionary).

AI is here to stay as they've already moved on to calling what is actual AI AGI (artificial general intelligence). so look out for AGI in the future because it's not too far off.

We're past the words meaning anything at this point man you just gotta let it go. People aren't calling it "Artificial Intelligence" they're calling it "AI"