It’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.
@Gargron funny I had this exact same exact conversation in my head yesterday about something in a paper I am writing. I decided to define the method as ML throughout and I will most def argue to keep it as such even if any reviewer/editor will suggest to me otherwise 😌
@Elisa @Gargron it's possible to be more specific or "technically correct", with terms like LLM or neural net, depending on the context of course - I agree though! often I use "AI" in conversations for the sole purpose of putting on a heavily sarcastic tone, pausing, and padding the word with heavy air quotations. works wonders for my mental health 😏
@Elisa suddenly thought it sounded like I was trying to "one up" you, so I want to say I like what you're doing, and just wanted to add my thought 😊