using the term AI for LLM was marketing genius
The phenomenon is much more widespread than just slapping the "AI" label on LLMs. Almost anything newsworthy that's done by a computer these days is hyped as "AI."
See, for example, this article about Delta's pricing. Someone more knowledgeable than I (which is probably almost everyone here) can correct me if I'm wrong, but Delta's personalized pricing seems to require a big database of personal data that shouldn't be public in the first place (a whole topic in its own right) and an algorithm for analyzing it. In other words, a bog standard computer program.
Another example: a friend of mine recently checked out the conversational capabilities at one of the well known language teaching sites. (I don't know which one.) He labeled the conversation as "AI"-generated, which may in fact be accurate, but it reminded me of Eliza, which was written ~60 years ago. And then there's this, about which I got nothin'.
The mention of travel agents and bookstores is a good reminder to skeptical me that "AI" is going to have widespread disruptive effects even if it isn't remotely what it's hyped to be.
using the term AI for LLM was marketing genius
The phenomenon is much more widespread than just slapping the "AI" label on LLMs. Almost anything newsworthy that's done by a computer these days is hyped as "AI."
See, for example, this article about Delta's pricing. Someone more knowledgeable than I (which is probably almost everyone here) can correct me if I'm wrong, but Delta's personalized pricing seems to require a big database of personal data that shouldn't be public in the first place (a whole topic in its own right) and an algorithm for analyzing it. In other words, a bog standard computer program.
Another example: a friend of mine recently checked out the conversational capabilities at one of the well known language teaching sites. (I don't know which one.) He labeled the conversation as "AI"-generated, which may in fact be accurate, but it reminded me of Eliza, which was written ~60 years ago.
And then there's this, about which I got nothin'.
The mention of travel agents and bookstores is a good reminder to skeptical me that "AI" is going to have widespread disruptive effects even if it isn't remotely what it's hyped to be.