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Just because somebody overloaded a word doesn't mean we can't correct people who use it wrong. The correct phrase should be "sudden/unexpected emergence". Othe
by exe34 3y ago
Just because somebody overloaded a word doesn't mean we can't correct people who use it wrong.
The correct phrase should be "sudden/unexpected emergence". Otherwise the phrase "gradual emergence" would be an oxymoron.
- n2d4 3y agoAs another commenter explained, different domains use words differently. The ML paper I linked has been influential enough to use the word "emergent" in machine learning to describe this behaviour, so you're right that, within the context of ML and AI, "gradual emergence" is an oxymoron. Again, I understand this might not align with what you think "emergence" means in the English language, in the same way in which "metal" in physics has a completely different meaning from "metal" in chemistry, "metal" in astrophysics, and "metal" in the English language.
- exe34 3y agoTo be fair, I don't think anybody in chemistry or astrophysics is very proud of this kind of overloading. It was done by some Philistines and the rest of us have to live with their defacement of the dictionary.