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Ive only witnessed this phenomenon a few times in my life. One of them was a few years ago when the word quadcopter, which had been in common use for 10+ years
by wegfawefgawefg 3y ago
Ive only witnessed this phenomenon a few times in my life. One of them was a few years ago when the word quadcopter, which had been in common use for 10+ years already, was replaced entirely with the word "drone" over a single december. At the time the word was obviously worse, but over the next few years it became the de facto term, and now mentally for me its the right concept hash.
We may see the original term for hallucination get lost. The pressure on it to have two meanings will break at some point.
- jrm4 3y agoSee -- the thing is; I'm hard pressed to see a problem with "drone" v "quadcopter" (though I'm not super into them) But, for example. "Delete" is literally a problem. Like, people think they can "delete their pictures from the internet" because that's what the app said it was doing. Same with "hallucination." There is literally absolutely no difference between what an AI is doing when it is "hallucinating" vs. when it gets things right, but the terminology implies it's possible for these things to know right from wrong, etc.
- qup 3y agoAt the time we were still calling them quadcopters, it was a conscious effort to not use "drone" because that word was in the media a lot due to military use (killing humans). Quadcopter enthusiasts didn't want that to turn into societal concern or extra regulations.
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agoThis can happen even with very important words. An example with the word "nature". Which changed dramatically at some point in the past 150 years. https://m.youtube.com/watch https://m.youtube.com/watch? v=ucn2KzCDnOY