Original Article:
"Maybe it’s magic, maybe it’s math—nobody can decide."
Maybe it's just a framing error?
"Others preferred the terms “automata studies,” “complex information processing,” “engineering psychology,” “applied epistemology,” “neural cybernetics,” “non-numerical computing,” “neuraldynamics,” “advanced automatic programming,” and “hypothetical automata.” Not quite as cool and sexy as AI."
I much rather prefer the term, a 'data deity'(A new metal track upcoming).
"As AI hype has ballooned, a vocal anti-hype lobby has risen in opposition, ready to smack down its ambitious, often wild claims. As a result, it can feel as if different camps are talking past one another, not always in good faith."
Semantics have caused wars before.
"AI is not going away. But if we don’t know what we’re being sold, who’s the dupe?"
Absolutely. There's a whole market for people inventing new words.
"A clunky acronym (pronounced “tes-cree-all”) replaces an even clunkier list of labels: transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism."
"TESCREALists believe that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, could not only fix the world’s problems but level up humanity. "
"Is AI math or magic? Either way, people have strong, almost religious beliefs in one or the other."
As John Mayer put it: "Belief is a beautiful armor, but makes for the heaviest sword"