Maybe we should also stop calling everything “tech”. Seems like every company that uses computers is a tech company.
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
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#22I tried convincing the business developers and marketing for years that what we did was machine learning, applied statistics or gulp “data-driven” functionality - but no, only thing that worked was “ AI Engine”... hurray for throwing my PhD at the wind...
What something is has almost no relationship to what sales could be the most successful calling it. That's a consequence of the lamentable but maybe unavoidable fact that so rarely are customers experts in what they buy.
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#23I tried convincing the business developers and marketing for years that what we did was machine learning, applied statistics or gulp “data-driven” functionality - but no, only thing that worked was “ AI Engine”... hurray for throwing my PhD at the wind...
Unfortunately marketing is everything. Engineers like to build nice shiny things without much of an eye on how to sell it. If you can slap "AI" on it and make some $, then why not? The end customer may not really care. Its not exactly like calling an apple "organic". Theres no certification process or consensus on what AI actually is or means.
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#24When I listen to marketers and journalists I always assume AI means "Algorithm" and Blockchain means "Decentralised"
The worst is when marketers and journalists talk about your own research.
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#25You mean we have to go back to "Blockchain"?
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#26When I listen to marketers and journalists I always assume AI means "Algorithm" and Blockchain means "Decentralised"
I would say that blockchain usually means "with hash trees." There are a lot of centralized hash tree products marketed as blockchain technology.
Also, "Algorithm" might be a little too narrow, "computer program" fits the colloquial use of AI a little better. :)
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#27What would be a better way to call 'AI' then for the general public?
pattern recognition? matrix multiplication? fancy statistics? or maybe enhanced statistics?
gah, might as well just say 'algorithm' and just be done with it.
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#28> “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.” How much more am I as a human really than the machine learning algorithms are?
I guess when we understand how the brain works, we'll be able to answer this.
Fundamentally different I would say. I understand enough about the brain to say that talking about any kind of machine intelligence in relation to brains, is comparing apples and oranges. Its not computing things in any way analogous to how a computer works. Why would it be?
Of course, computers might be able to imitate some things and far exceed some things that our brains do. That's different though.
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#29I tried convincing the business developers and marketing for years that what we did was machine learning, applied statistics or gulp “data-driven” functionality - but no, only thing that worked was “ AI Engine”... hurray for throwing my PhD at the wind...
only thing that worked was “ AI Engine”... hurray for throwing my PhD at the wind...
You're lucky it didn't end up being " AI Blockchain."
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#30> “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.” How much more am I as a human really than the machine learning algorithms are?
A lot? A machine learning algorithm is a task-specific pattern matching algorithm. Sea cucumbers are probably more "intelligent" than any ML algorithm.