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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Are you talking about AI or LLM branded as LLM?

Actual AI is accurate and efficient because it is designed for specific tasks. Unlike LLM which is just fancy autocomplete.

[-] 8andage@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Even llms are useful for coding, if you keep it in its auto complete lane instead of expecting it to think for you

Just don't pay a capitalist for it, a tiny, power efficient model that runs on your own pc is more than enough

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes technology can be useful but that doesn't make it "intelligent."

Seriously why are people still promoting auto-complete as "AI" at this point in time? It's laughable.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

instead of llm, slm! (small language model)

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

LLMs are part of AI, so I think you're maybe confused. You can say anything is just fancy anything, that doesn't really hold any weight. You are familiar with autocomplete, so you try to contextualize LLMs in your narrow understanding of this tech. That's fine, but you should actually read up because the whole field is really neat.

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Literally, LLMs are extensions of the techniques developed for autocomplete in phones. There's a direct lineage. Same fundamental mathematics under the hood, but given a humongous scope.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

LLMs are extensions of the techniques developed for autocomplete in phones. There's a direct lineage

That's not true.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

How is this untrue? Generative pre-training is literally training the model to predict what might come next in a given text.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's not what an LLM is. That's part of how it works, but it's not the whole process.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

They never claimed that it was the whole thing. Only that it was part of it.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Unlike LLM which is just fancy autocomplete.

You might keep hearing people say this, but that doesn't make it true (and it isn't true).

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

Actual AI doesn't exist

FTFY.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

"intelligence" is not a very narrow term! imagenet classifiers are definitely intelligent in some way.

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