I need your best general-but-educated-audience definitions of #AI please!
I know it is a a phrase subject to definitional disagreements and covering fast-evolving applications (https://iai.tv/articles/ai-is-not-intelligent-auid-2519) and also the technology of text generators known as Large Language Models (LLMs), but if you had to define it with nuance for a lay audience who only ever hears the phrase 'artificial intelligence', what rhetorical magic do you use?
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@serenissimaj It's a trick question :) The definition of #AI is so vague that people make it whatever they want.
For many people it summons up images of something like Commander Data from Star Trek.
For others, it's an #LLM that carries out word-completion on steroids, with no connection to either reality or truth.
And the difference between these views opens up huge marketing potential for those selling access to pre-trained LLMs.
So it may be many things, but it's also the latest snake-oil.
