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Genuine question: do you have the same objection against the terms machine learning, goal-seeking, or AI agents?
by EForEndeavour 3y ago
Genuine question: do you have the same objection against the terms machine learning, goal-seeking, or AI agents?
- ggm 3y agoI am unhappy with ML as words but ML as an acronym imparts less concern. Goal seeking has been in the vocab for a long time, and usually does impart a sense of intentionality but it's coded in, algorithmically. the mechanistic approaches to goal seeking are givens, the code is an implementation of them. In LLM we're being taken to "the intentionality emerges, it wasn't coded in" Which sould be disputed, but it's how I see people inferring "behaviour" in this space. Agents yes, I do have problems with, having just written of them in a different but related thread (different HN story) I begin to suspect the seeds of this linguistic problem lie deep. They were there in "clippy" and the personification of the system.