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AI has existed for several decades before the first LLM was ever created.[1][2][3]

And that's not even considering machine learning and deep learning which also have existed for many years before LLMs.

Even if you consider the current usage of the word AI in popular culture, it includes things that are not an LLM like Stable Diffusion and Suno

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#Historical_contex...



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