Wednesday, August 04, 2021

AI by any other name would not smell as sweet

Christopher Mims reports that some experts working on AI think that the moniker “fuels confusion and hype of the sort that led to past ‘AI winters’ of disappointment” (“Why Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Intelligent,” WSJ, July 31, 2021). I believe the terminology is responsible for the success as well as misperceptions of AI, and that winters are no bad thing.