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> There is a long history of bad naming conventions in the field of AI, including “artificial intelligence” itself imo. It's all marketing. AI companies repurp
by parineum 3mo ago
> There is a long history of bad naming conventions in the field of AI, including “artificial intelligence” itself imo.
It's all marketing. AI companies repurpose the terms of AI researchers to exaggerate their products. The public has an idea of what AI means and the companies exploit it. AI, in public perception, is what the Terminator movies are about.
It's exactly like all the "hover boards" you can buy.
- janalsncm 3mo agoThe specific terms I gave as examples weren’t created by marketers. They were created by researchers. It’s just that “attention” is a lot easier to say than “similarity-weighted representation mixing”.
- parineum 3mo agoCreated my researchers, co-opted by marketers. That's my point. The marketing is responsible for all of this confusion because they want to associate their product with something that it isn't.