AI is not a technical term … one person could interpret a heuristic as AI. The way we “score” posts giving weight to likes and reads and views can be considered AI. Akismet can be called “AI”. The list is a mile long.
As it stands the industry is “concerned” about AI safety in the context of large language models.
As it stands Discourse core and Discourse AI do not ship any large language models. Discourse AI integrates existing large language models via APIs which admins can enter (Open AI and Anthropic), in future we are likely to support even more models.
A large language model (LLM) is a language model consisting of a neural network with many parameters trained on large quantities of unlabeled text using deep learning techniques. These models can recognize, summarize, translate, predict, and generate text and other forms of data. LLMs have seen significant advancements in recent years, excelling in a variety of tasks and transforming the fields of artificial intelligence, science, and society as a whole [1] [2].
Some examples of large language models include OpenAI’s GPT-3, which is trained to predict the next word in a sentence, much like a text message autocomplete feature [3].
Text via Google + GPT-4
I find a lot of this discussion somewhat perplexing, is there are concern we are going to “cancer” the Discourse source? Is there concern we are going to have a tight unconditional dependency on Open AI?