> By “modern AI”, we specifically mean the machine learning methods and large language models (LLMs) behind systems like ChatGPT ...
What a narrow-ass definition of AI.
If you're giving a course in LLMs, you should call it that.
axseem•58m ago
It really depends on the target audience, because a lot of people have no idea what they are using is called an LLM or that there are various types of generative AI.
gignico•47m ago
I think the problem is the under representation of other branches of AI research: knowledge representation, automated reasoning, planning, etc.
These are important topics with important industrial applications which have the only downsides to not be suitable for implementing friendly chatbots and for raising the stocks of Silicon Valley companies.
small_model•41m ago
Well it's the dominant and most successful implemented AI, would a comp sci course teach every failed computer architecture or focus on the ones that are in wide use today.
suddenlybananas•26m ago
I think comp sci courses focuse on fundamentals rather than what's popular. Besides, other kinds of AI are not "failures", they have plenty of uses.
smokel•20m ago
Don't trip over words. The course offers quite a range of knowledge that is suitable outside LLMs. It's an introduction.
emil-lp•1h ago
What a narrow-ass definition of AI.
If you're giving a course in LLMs, you should call it that.
axseem•58m ago
gignico•47m ago
These are important topics with important industrial applications which have the only downsides to not be suitable for implementing friendly chatbots and for raising the stocks of Silicon Valley companies.
small_model•41m ago
suddenlybananas•26m ago
smokel•20m ago