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“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.'

ft.com/content/c1f6d948-3dde-4

@cyrilpedia A.S., not A.I.

Though I’ve always considered it more like Artificial Stupidity, so the A.S. still fits.

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time to recall the #ai origins joke from J Mccarthy itself:
youtube.com/watch?v=03p2CADwGF
» excuse me I invented the term artificial intelligence...
I invented it because we had to do something when we were trying to get money for a summer study... in 1956
youtube.com/watch?v=03p2CADwGF

@cyrilpedia Machine learning is another more realistic term, and is commonly used, at least in academia.

@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

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