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9 days agoThe “break” from sitting in my case means working
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken


The “break” from sitting in my case means working


And Plato argued that writing things down is bad because then we don’t need to remember anything.


Agreed. Even without internet connection, there still remains a ton of other stuff I don’t like about modern cars. I find them quite frustrating to drive honestly.
I’m perfectly happy with my -07 Nissan pickup and willing to drive it the next 20 years too if I have to. Just gotta try and stay ahead of all the rust.


Yeah, so you might be able to juggle and drive an unicycle at the same time but you still can’t write code or fill an excel sheet while answering to an email.
The term is fine - people just don’t know the actual definition of it.
AI is a broad, unspecific term. It’s like the term “plants” - it covers everything from grass to giant redwoods but we have more specific terms for the subcategories for a reason. If we just refer to all life that photosynthesizes as plants then nobody knows which plant you’re talking about. Nowadays when someone speaks of AI it’s relatively safe to assume that they’re talking about one of the multimodal frontier models (that are not only LLMs) but it’s sloppy, imprecise use of language and it will lead to people talking past each other.
In the classical sense AI refers to a system capable of performing any cognitive task typically attributed to a human. Under this definition, even an Atari chess engine is an AI. However nowadays the meaning has shifted a little and the term typically refers to a system that has been trained with a bunch of data.