Heresiarch of Uqbar: Until recently they were calling this sort of thing "machine learning" (and a lot of people would say that's still too anthropomorphic). But it seems the dam has broken: LLMs are "AI" and I guess everything else in the world is too.

Just mind blowing. Elephants have names. Like, they give each other names and use them in conversation. Elephants have names!

Elephants call each other by name, study findswww.theguardian.com Researchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya

Does this mean that, like, Elephant A has a name for Elephant B, or that Elephant A has a name that Elephants B-Z all know? Both are amazing, to be sure, I just wasn’t clear on this.

the article says it's the former. Elephant A has distinct names for Elephant B, Elephant C and so on.

Looks like there is some potential evidence for the latter but they failed to prove it. Perhaps we shouldn't read too much into that failure: it's a miracle of science that they managed to prove *any* part of this.

this is what we SHOULD be using AI for. learning elephants' names.

I disagree strongly with Guardian's decision to describe this as "AI." That's a pretty bad label in general but in the recent discourse it usually refers to large transformer-based neural networks, and this is something totally different, though I don't know how computationally intensive.

Until recently they were calling this sort of thing "machine learning" (and a lot of people would say that's still too anthropomorphic). But it seems the dam has broken: LLMs are "AI" and I guess everything else in the world is too.

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