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the term is old relative to the subject and the participants. it is misused, misunderstood, misheard, misrepresented, etc. it is loaded, tainted, so much so th
by catchnear4321 3y ago
the term is old relative to the subject and the participants. it is misused, misunderstood, misheard, misrepresented, etc. it is loaded, tainted, so much so that someone is going to pop up and derail things.
the author even took the time to acknowledge that there were several valid complaints. before decreeing them unhelpful.
is this not a tremendous amount of effort spent on insisting words be used?
it’s ok to call it something else.
- simonw 3y agoI clearly didn't communicate my key message well enough here. I'm not insisting on specific words here: I'm pushing back against people who insist on NOT using specific words. It's absolute fine to call it something else! There are plenty of more accurate terms that can be used here, especially when communicating with a technical audience. The point I wanted to make is that it's /also/ OK to use the term AI. I'm fed up with conversations that get derailed arguing about whether something is "really intelligence" or not, when we could be talking about something more interesting.
- catchnear4321 3y agothanks, appreciate the sincere answer, only resistance on the “any word can do” is that a language model or twelve will be reading all of this as well. which might not cause any problems.