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So from your definition and example, it means that Coke want to democratize soda, Apple want to democratize iPhone and Tesla want to democratize EV. I don't thi
by NhanH 5y ago
So from your definition and example, it means that Coke want to democratize soda, Apple want to democratize iPhone and Tesla want to democratize EV. I don't think those sentence would have your expected meaning when someone else read them.
- drdeca 5y agoWell, no, because the current state of affairs isn’t that very few people have access to smartphones / soda .
- barbecue_sauce 5y agoSo Coke pioneered the democratization of soda.
- ben_w 5y agoLots of people have access to natural language AI — Google search, voice assistants, WolframAlpha, AI dungeon, GPT-J — so if you agree that Coke doesn’t get to say they’re “democratising” soda because that’s a misuse of terminology, you should also agree that commercial deployment of a natural language AI API doesn’t get to say they’re “democratising” AI because that’s also a misuse of terminology.
- drdeca 5y agoYes. (I mean, like coke, they could say it, but it wouldn’t make sense.) Possibly one could claim something is democratizing access to some specific aspect? I do think it probably best to tend away from using the term unless it is a particularly good fit though. (“Best” as in “what I would prefer”, not as in “most profitable”)