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I think that is the problem though.

In a lot of people's views, outside of our tech bubble, when they think "AI" they are thinking things like. General Purpose AI, ChatGPT, or this almost magic thing that this single thing is what is doing all of this.

When the reality is thats not the case for the vast majority of this. It isn't like they are feeding this data into Gemini or another LLM and just tell it, process this data. Or its some magic single "Google AI" that is suddenly doing all of these tasks. But that is the public perception that is being painted for non technical people. Which is dangerous, it just further fuels this idea that ChatGPT and similar is a general purpose AI.

Its a standard ML model that we have been building for many years. Whats even more concerning is ML and Machine Learning are no where in this article.

Yeah its marketing, but its frustrating seeing how much we are now just calling everything "AI" as this magic term.




I imagine the person who wrote the article would respond like "Machine learning? That's so 2010s, get on with the times."


Nothing would stop us from explaining the relationship between ML and LLM to this hypothetical author.




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