"Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"
3 points by akiarie an hour ago | 2 comments
Call me a snowflake, but I propose that those of us who don't believe that AI is actually intelligence look for a term to refer to its "thinking" that isn't "intelligence", because this helps our weak minds keep things straight.

subligence /sʌbˈlɪdʒəns/ n.

A lesser or rudimentary form of intelligence; the capacity to respond, select, or adapt without full understanding. The semblance of mind in animals, machines, systems, or inanimate things. Discernment beneath reason; inferior intelligence.

Example: "Since December, the coding models have gotten noticeably more subligent, so much so that the undiscerning eye has trouble distinguishing their output from human intelligence."

  • hootz an hour ago |
    Yeah, fine, but I feel like this fight was already lost before generative AI/LLMs became a thing. My university called a topic about rudimentary state machines "Intelligent Systems", and those didn't even use machine learning.

    AI is already a "word" for it, artificial intelligence. It is not intelligence, but it sure does perform some tasks usually associated with human intelligence.

    • akiarie 33 minutes ago |
      True, but thing is that "artificial intelligence" is meant in the opposite sense. It's meant as something that is / will be equivalent to human intelligence, not as something useful but vastly inferior.