So, if you struggle as I do to actually use non-antrophomorphisizing language to refer to “AI”, because “probabilistic automation” is reeeeally inconvenient to say — struggle no more.
The wonderfully creative French language comes to the rescue. Lo and behold:
✨ the pipotron ✨
(Please refer to the wiki: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipotron
As well as to the original post by @elzen in French: https://fadrienn.irlnc.org/objects/3b9e1e71-d590-447d-a5c6-163894a62f23)
As French, I can assert that "pipotron" generated sentences are NOT non-sense.
"Empty-sense" would be a better qualifier.
Example :
"As far as the conjuncture of society is concerned, we cannot do without examining all the alternatives already in our possession."
(Translated with FreeTranslate)
The original pipotron is, literally, a bullshit generator, with « bullshit » as a translation for the french word « baratin », something that aims to sound convincing but has nothing to do with meaning or truth.
And that's precisely how LLM-based text generators work: they use statistics to determine what should be the next word of their text to have something plausible, and then they iterate the process until the text is complete. They have nothing to do with meaning or truth, as the way they work is to put words one after the other to generate something that would convince a human being reading them. Therefore, they're next generation pipotrons.
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The reason why I prefer to call them another way is that even if the LLM themselves are abandoned, what wouldn't change about those tools is that they're build to generate bullshit, to give a convincing result that have nothing to do with meaning or truth. And that's precisely what the name “pipotron” refers to. “LLM” talks about how they're (currently) done; “pipotron” talks about what they aim to do.
(That being said, it's just my point of view, continue to call them just as you want. And I didn't aim to import that word in English at first ^^")