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Ask HN: Isn't it time for a new AI acronym?

2 points by sema4hacker ↗ HN
Having been interested in AI for decades, "AI" to me has always meant "human-level machine intelligence", aka "strong AI".

When the term "ML" started to become popular, I felt it was more like "data collection" than "learning". ML seemed a far cry from developing a machine that could learn and be taught, like humans can learn and be taught.

Now with the problem of ChatGPT's reputation for spewing out unreliable nonsense, it seems we need a new acronym for that flavor of AI. Perhaps "FAI", for Fake Artificial Intelligence?

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sp332
Wikipedia says that AI has focused on more specialized tasks since the 90's. AI at the level of a human intelligence has been moved to a sub-category. The most common term these days is "artificial general intelligence", or AGI.
JoshCole
The acronym is large language model (LLM) because the existing models are language models with millions or billions of weights.