> With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoyingly called),
I made it this far and realized the rest wasn’t worth reading. Language evolves, words change, and AI means what it means now. It turns out it’s actually really useful to have an abstraction above the concept of LLMs to talk about the broader set of these types of technologies, and generally speaking I find that these very pedantic types of people don’t bring me useful new perspectives.
> Language evolves, words change, and AI means what it means now. It turns out it’s actually really useful to have an abstraction above the concept of LLMs to talk about the broader set of these types of technologies
I agree that "AI" can be useful as an umbrella term, but using it when referring specifically to the "LLM" subset of AI technologies is not useful. A ton of information about the capabilities and limitations of the system is lost when making that substitution. I understand why marketing departments are pushing everything as "AI" to sell a product but as consumers we should be fighting against that.
People who aren’t software engineers need to be able to converse about these technologies, and no one outside of our world cares about the difference between LLMs and other types of AI.
I made it this far and realized the rest wasn’t worth reading. Language evolves, words change, and AI means what it means now. It turns out it’s actually really useful to have an abstraction above the concept of LLMs to talk about the broader set of these types of technologies, and generally speaking I find that these very pedantic types of people don’t bring me useful new perspectives.