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I hate it when models are described as "an AI." It's too much of a personification for my taste. "An intelligence" carries a lot of baggage compared to "a model
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
I hate it when models are described as "an AI." It's too much of a personification for my taste. "An intelligence" carries a lot of baggage compared to "a model." We can argue til we're blue in the face about whether GPT-3 is intelligent, so writing a headline like this is already too much hype for me. I've gotten the chance to play with GPT-3 quite a bit, and while amazingly impressive, it's not remotely close to what the hype train says it is.
- king_magic 6y agoI've had to (nicely) beat usage of the phrase "an AI" out of my team. It's so inaccurate that it's almost dishonest, to your point of the additional anthropomorphic baggage it carries.
- devindotcom 6y agoYou're right in a way but the term AI has come to encompass all software of the machine learning type, systems that imitate the process of intelligent thought. It's shorthand at this point, unfortunately inaccurate but ML isn't as well known and every character counts in headlines so longer descriptions are saved for the body. I don't like the way some words are used, and I complain about it too: https://coldewey.cc/2020/06/common-bugbears-of-modern-online-writing/ https://coldewey.cc/2020/06/common-bugbears-of-modern-online... That's our right as fellow users of the language. But unfortunately (such as with "begging the question" or "flammable") we're much too late to make a difference. AI is, I think one of those cases.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoThat's not the complaint. This is orthogonal to the AI vs ML vs stats debate. It's "an AI/ML/stats model" vs "an AI." "An artificial intelligence" has baggage that's hard to pin down, like it suggests it has a notion of self or sentience or something.