“There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?’ And someone else said, ‘A poor choice of words in 1954’,” he says. “And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the ’50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we’re having now.”
So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics.'
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@cyrilpedia they could have continued calling it cybernetics, but they wanted to claim and true an entire new field, as academics often do.
@lmrocha The entire interview is worth reading - Chiang expands on this argument and other interesting POVs about aspects of language that LLMs fail at