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📣 sema4hacker

Isn't it time for a new AI acronym?


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?

  👤 sp332 Accepted Answer ✓
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.