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LLMs are not AI.
This is incorrect under standard technical and policy usage: large language models are generally classified as AI systems, specifically machine-learning-based language models.
Full reasoning
This claim conflicts with widely used definitions from authoritative sources.
- Stanford HAI defines a large language model directly as "an AI system trained on massive amounts of text data".
- OECD's explanation of its AI-system definition says topics encompassed by AI include machine learning and natural language processing, and uses language models as an example of systems that appear to respond intelligently to prompts.
So while someone may argue that LLMs are not human-like intelligence or not AGI, the blanket statement "LLMs are not AI" is misleading. In standard contemporary technical, academic, and policy terminology, LLMs are considered a kind of AI system.
2 sources
- What is a Large Language Model (LLM)? | Stanford HAI
A Large Language Model is an AI system trained on massive amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like language.
- What is AI? Can you make a clear distinction between AI and non-AI systems? - OECD.AI
Topics typically encompassed by the term "AI" ... include categories of techniques such as machine learning ... application areas such as ... natural language processing ... For example, language models are given large amounts of language resources and given the objective to "predict the next word", producing a trained model that appears to respond intelligently to prompts.