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    The term “AI” was first coined in 1956 at the Dartmouth workshop and covers a broad range of topics in computer science. Machine learning and language models most certainly do fall under that category.

    Refusing to call LLMs “AI” looks to me like an instance of the AI effect in action, in which anything computers can do is no longer regarded as an example of “real” intelligence. It’s a goalpost shift.

    Used to be that the Turing Test was a big deal. Or being able to beat a human chess grandmaster. Or a Go grandmaster, once chess was reliably being won by computers. Just the other day ChatGPT was able to generate a novel proof for an unsolved Erdos problem that mathematicians are now using as a basis for new discoveries. What’s the next goalpost?

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        Writing birthday cards and cheating on school assignments? It can already do that quite well, that’s a goalpost that’s been passed already.