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It is totally fair, but for a lot of average non-tech people, AI == "something you can prompt in a natural language".

I personally prefer to avoid the term altogether in favor of more specific terms, like:

- LLM

- chess engine

- image generation model

etc

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I'm not sure most people are that naïve that they can't differentiate between "any computer that acts smartly" (how the term "AI" is used) and the word chatbot. Of course, LLM is even more precise

Tangential question: what do you call transformers-based models that generate images or videos? Are they LLMs? They're not really "language" models. But there's not really an easy term for them. Maybe "image models" and "video models"?

I'd call them video/image generators because I don't know the word for the underlying technology. I can't imagine they're LLMs because, indeed, the second L is for language

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