Various companies are hawking their “artificial intelligences” (AIs) for use and sale. I understand that the goal is to create an intelligence that is artificial, but the marketing arms of these companies are referring to their “AIs” as if they had met that goal already. It is clear that they have not. Artificial intelligences do not yet exist, so we shouldn’t be referring to them as AIs as if they did already exist.
The programs being hawked today aren’t at all close to being intelligent. One foundational researcher refers to them as “pretend intelligences.” They are able to carry on a conversation as if a real person were involved, but they do not understand the concepts and certainly the contexts of the words produced.
When these programs make egregious errors, they are referred to as “AI hallucinations” as that terminology supports the idea that the programs are intelligent already. We are told that large language models are “taught” vast amounts of “knowledge” when they are just given access to vast amounts of data in databases. Please stop referring to them as AIs or their outputs as manifestations of intelligence, otherwise you are just part of the AI hype machine that is selling billions of dollars of … hope … that something will come out of their efforts.
Uncommon Sense 