AI as “ideology” may be a stretch, but it tends there with all the mythos behind a word like “artificial intelligence”. Naming things matters. While the head

AI as “ideology” may be a stretch, but it tends there with all the mythos behind a word like “artificial intelligence”. Naming things matters. While the head of Apple’s ML/AI strategy likes “machine intelligence” [1], I prefer “machine learning”. “Intelligence” is a loaded word. I think (hope) that “learning” can be understood as narrowly and crudely as the field actually requires. A more sober term would help the entire world manage this better on average, IMO, than if we use the unnecessarily scary and confusing term “artificial intelligence”. [1] “For this reason and others, many AI experts (Giannandrea included) have suggested alternative terms like "machine intelligence" that don't draw parallels to human intelligence.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/apple-explains-how-it-uses-machine-learning-across-ios-and-soon-macos/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/apple-explains-how-i...