>But say “reason”, “think”, or “meaning” with something AI related and it’s like all work has to stop until we stop using that precious word. The unwillingness

>But say “reason”, “think”, or “meaning” with something AI related and it’s like all work has to stop until we stop using that precious word. The unwillingness to admit to AI capabilities because they are expressed in terms of human capabilities is what I deem an argument that "boats can't swim". True, in that what it does is different, but irrelevant in almost every facet that most people discussing it would care about. The boat, if anything, "swims" better than humans in basically every way. The argument against its use is only that swimming doesn't refer to boats. (I admit I might have picked this argument and phrase somewhere, but I did recently a cursory glance back through old comments, and think I might have coined it based on having then recently learned that Russian uses the same term for swimming and sailing, which I had found interesting at the time. But perhaps not, my first use appears almost a decade ago, and my mind is ever forgetful)