Note on Beyond the Machine Extras via Frank Chimero

I’d be much happier if we used words like “generative models” instead of AI or GenAI. Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst from the talk have used the phrase, “common intelligence,” which is also nice, since the synthesis is only available if derived from all the work of humanity so far. Almost any name for this generation of technology is better than AI to me.

The old nut is that our current instantiation of AI is neither A nor I, and past technologies presented as AI eventually settle into a more descriptive name once the boundaries of its utility are found (symbolic reasoning, speech recognition, OCR, machine vision, machine learning, and so on). Let’s hope this happens, whether it’s LLM, GPT, or something else.

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Frank Chimero

Beyond the Machine Extras

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Especially since the models generally act as a representation of common human knowledge/reactions.