Re: Including AI into Emacs

[Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> Sure. But every game, and every software and Emacs itself is
> artificial intelligence. It is extended mind. But now the term AI is
> used in marketing to make it easier accessible to common people.

It seems to me that some important distinctions are being blurred throughout this thread. I am seeing the term AI used to refer to three things:

(1) generally, any kind of computation or problem solving that involves computer programming;
(2) computation that involves inferences and rules (e.g., a prolog program)
(3) using LLM, i.e., "the use of large neural networks for language modeling" (wikipedia definition).

Activities (1) and (2) are things that I can do on my own computer, maybe even without having to leave Elisp or the running, single Emacs thread. For activity (3), even I can do it without the help of remote compute cluster, it is going to require a large model database, plus intense computing resources, like a separate computer, or an expensive GPU requiring proprietary drivers.

I'm open minded to integrations of (3), if they can be done cost-effectively, if they are truly useful, and if I don't have to give up my computing freedoms, but that has to be proven to me. And I don't want that approach confused with (1) and (2).

-- 
Christopher Howard

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