You raise a far point. These criticisms based on "it's merely X" or "it's not really Y" don't hold water when X and Y are poorly defined.
The only thing that should matter is the results they get. And I have a hard time understanding why the thing that is supposed to behave in an intelligent way but often just spew nonsense gets 10x budget increases over and over again.
This is bad software. It does not do the thing it promises to do. Software that sometimes works and very often produces wrong or nonsensical output is garbage software. Sink 10x, 100x, 1000x more resources into it is irrational.
Nothing else matters. Maybe it reasons, maybe it's intelligent. If it produces garbled nonsense often, giving the teams behind it 10x the compute is insane.
Software that mangles data on the regular should be thrown away.
How is it rational to 10x the budget over and over again when it mangles data every time?
The mind blowing thing is not being skeptical of that approach, it's defending it. It has become an article of faith.
It would be great to have AI chatbots. But chatbots that mangle data getting their budgets increased by orders of magnitude over and over again is just doubling down on the same mistake over and over again.
The only thing that should matter is the results they get. And I have a hard time understanding why the thing that is supposed to behave in an intelligent way but often just spew nonsense gets 10x budget increases over and over again.
This is bad software. It does not do the thing it promises to do. Software that sometimes works and very often produces wrong or nonsensical output is garbage software. Sink 10x, 100x, 1000x more resources into it is irrational.
Nothing else matters. Maybe it reasons, maybe it's intelligent. If it produces garbled nonsense often, giving the teams behind it 10x the compute is insane.