It’s really good at making us feel like it’s intelligent, but that’s no more real than a good VR headset convincing us to walk into a physical wall.

It’s a meta version of VR.

(Meta meta, if you will.)

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caOP
    311·
    4 days ago

    ‘AGI’ means ‘Artificial Generative Intelligence’, which is a fancy name used for LLMs by marketers and techbros.

    Or did you mean something else?

    • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      It means Artificial General intelligence and the term has been around for almost three decades.

      The term AGI was first used in 1997 by Mark Avrum Gubrud in an article named ‘Nanotechnology and international security’

      By advanced artificial general intelligence, I mean AI systems that rival or surpass the human brain in complexity and speed, that can acquire, manipulate and reason with general knowledge, and that are usable in essentially any phase of industrial or military operations where a human intelligence would otherwise be needed. Such systems may be modeled on the human brain, but they do not necessarily have to be, and they do not have to be “conscious” or possess any other competence that is not strictly relevant to their application. What matters is that such systems can be used to replace human brains in tasks ranging from organizing and running a mine or a factory to piloting an airplane, analyzing intelligence data or planning a battle.___

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caOP
        2·
        4 days ago

        Thank you. I’ve only heard ‘generative’ but I’ve not really kept up with the tech until the past few years since it wasn’t much of a thing before that in real life.

    • dogerwaul@pawb.social
      2·
      4 days ago

      i meant what i said, unfortunately lol. it’s in the “hypothetical” stages but isn’t science fiction either. every major AI company has stated it is their goal.