I have not claimed the techniques are similar - going by your example, theres a large set of overlapping skills for both Photoshop and using a paintbrush (color theory, anatomy, perspective etc.), and from the PoV of the end-user, the merits of the piece are what's important - not process.
I'm sure while the AI lab folks didn't have the techniques and compute to do ML like we do now, they have thought a lot about the definition of intelligence and what it takes to achieve it, going from the narrow task-specific AIs to truly generic intelligence.
ML/RL allowed us to create systems that given a train/test set, can learn underlying patterns and discover connections in data without a developer having to program it.
Transformers/LLMs are a scaled up version of the approach (I don't want to get into the weeds as it's beside the point)
Stallman asserts LLMs fall short of general intelligence, which I think he has a much better understanding of what that entails than most people give him credit for. Considering his AI past, I'd be surprised if he didn't keep up with the advancements and techniques in the field at least to some degree (or that understanding said techniques would be beyond his ability).
Because of this, I'm running with the theory that he knows what he's talking about even he doesn't elaborate on it here.
I'm sure while the AI lab folks didn't have the techniques and compute to do ML like we do now, they have thought a lot about the definition of intelligence and what it takes to achieve it, going from the narrow task-specific AIs to truly generic intelligence.
ML/RL allowed us to create systems that given a train/test set, can learn underlying patterns and discover connections in data without a developer having to program it.
Transformers/LLMs are a scaled up version of the approach (I don't want to get into the weeds as it's beside the point)
Stallman asserts LLMs fall short of general intelligence, which I think he has a much better understanding of what that entails than most people give him credit for. Considering his AI past, I'd be surprised if he didn't keep up with the advancements and techniques in the field at least to some degree (or that understanding said techniques would be beyond his ability).
Because of this, I'm running with the theory that he knows what he's talking about even he doesn't elaborate on it here.