It always feels like some form of VR tech comes out with some sort of fanfare and with a promise it will take over the world, but it never does.
It always feels like some form of VR tech comes out with some sort of fanfare and with a promise it will take over the world, but it never does.
AI
Please don’t mix AI with LLMs. LLMs are surely overhyped and I guess they will never reach the quality they promise. AI on the other hand is used in many aspects, successfully. For many years protein folding was extremely difficult. Google threw AI at it, now it can be regarded as a solved problem.
I think there’s a pretty major failure in overall AI/Machine learning as well. Elsewhere on Lemmy I saw someone talking about how the neural processor built into their laptop essentially doesn’t function. Like there isn’t and will never be any software that runs on it because it’s badly implemented and badly or not at all documented.
LLM is an AI, but the terms aren’t synonymous. AI describes a broad field - LLM is only one subcategory of it.
AI is essentially a useless term because it has been used to describe everything from an LLM to a single if statement in the code of a video game.
“Plant” can describe anything from grass to giant redwoods, but it’s not a useless term. We have more specific names for all the subspecies of plants - and the same goes for AI.