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That's been the technical definition in the AI research community for at least 50 years. "AI = machines that think like people" is the sci-fi definition.


> AI = machines that think like people" is the sci-fi definition

It's also the layman's definition

Which does matter because laymen are the ones who are treating this current batch of AI as the silver bullet for all problems


Yes but OpenAI is flagrantly using the people's sci-fi defintion understanding to radically overvalue it's, to be blunt, utterly mid products.




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