“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.'
https://www.ft.com/content/c1f6d948-3dde-405f-924c-09cc0dcf8c84
time to recall the #ai origins joke from J Mccarthy itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03p2CADwGF8&t=2760s
» 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03p2CADwGF8&t=2760s
@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
@cyrilpedia A.S., not A.I.
Though I’ve always considered it more like Artificial Stupidity, so the A.S. still fits.