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inigyoulast Sunday at 2:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Because AI meant "make computers smart like people".

We taught the computer to spell check, but the computer still didn't feel smart like a person, just smart like a machine so that obviously wasn't AI. We taught it to do algebra, same thing. With LLMs though, now it really does feel like an artificial human, so this time it really is AI.


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jaggederestlast Sunday at 7:00 PM

Right, but I remember when spellcheck first started to be a thing, and people were like "Wow proofreaders are out of a job, ai is so cool", but then it became normal.