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Just heard someone unironically use the term "real AI".

Real artificial intelligence? What the hell does that even mean?

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

What it's always meant. "What we don't have yet." In the 80s when we had expert systems based on knowledge representation, we called them "AI" but talked about "real AI" as "what we don't have yet." So, LLMs aren't "real AI", so we (um, some other people, not actually me) lust after the mythical beast, which may never exist.
in reply to Judy Anderson

@Judy Anderson Fair, but this guy talking about how Zork "faked AI" instead of having the "real AI" we have now.

Edit: context

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Ah, OK. So this guy thinks we didn't have real AI when zork happened but we do now. I beg to differ 🙂
in reply to Judy Anderson

@Judy Anderson To me, the very concept seems inescapably like an oxymoron, unless we play strange games with the definitions of the words "artificial" and "real". That said, I really wouldn't know how to define the word "intelligence" in the first place, so it may be a moot point anyway.

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