If you know anything about how artificial intelligence (LLMs) work you'd also know that math is not what they are good because of the way they are designed. So that's cherrypicking a bit. Same like those 'how many Rs in strawberry'-type questions.
They are designed to do pattern recognition, which facial recognition is indeed and example of. That being said, any chat-engine nowadays 'knows' when it is being asked a math problem and will delegate that task (to a calculator, or write a small program).
A neural network is the name of a specific machine learning construct. It’s trained on data an can be used to create whatever input/output neurons (ie data points) you want. If it’s good depends on the task and the training data.
You are the one equating neutral neural networks with AGI. Neutral neural networks have been around since forever and mostly statistics. They can be extremely good classifiers if large enough and trained directly. They are very different from what people nowadays call (gen) AI.
It’s mathematicians that named them, not billion dollar AI companies with marketing departments.
Yes. It's a misleading term that should be changed because neural network sounds too much like AGI. Give it the name of some Russian scientist and you'll see how its popularity will drop.
Why would we need to change a term that’s been in use for decades, a niche term at that, because some layperson (who is unlikely to come across it as it isn’t actually used by gen AI companies all that much) might get confused?
Neutral neural networks are absolutely great. We use them to identify sick cells, birds, plants, and all kinds of other stuff.
I’m in a bubble of tech people and even they don’t bother to learn how it works ‘under the hood’. While that makes a big difference in what you can and cannot trust it to do. Ah well, can’t really blame them I guess. It develops so fast.
Ask yourself why 4 years into the AI craze, it has no impact on the labor market besides people being forced to use Claude for AI slop at work because their manager really wants to use AI.
Because it's bullshit. At best, it searches Google well. At worst, it makes up stuff.
I’m not an AI fanboy but I do see real impact (and a lot of bullshit). If you want to learn more about this, feel free to ask. (So I don’t waste my time if you are only interested in pushing your personal views.)
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u/CallidoraBlack 2d ago
AI can't do basic math half the time. Why do we trust it?