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which has consistently been the subject of the bailey-motte. "ai is unproven technology" -> "no, look at classical ML, that's been around decades" (while still holding out the newest thing as established)
This part of the thread really brought out the 'splainers. I should have probably included a link to this encyclopedia article. When I say that "AI" doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies, that is not idle commentary but actually based on scholarship.
faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...
faculty.washington.edu
@emilymbender.bsky.social... and then remind everyone that the phrase "artificial intelligence" doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies.
What it does do, inter alia, is help people get VERY excited when OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and the like go around making very big claims.
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