Stop saying “artificial intelligence”. (And “neural networks” too.)

Be more specific. Say “reinforcement learning”. Say “generative modelling”. Say “Bayesian filtering”. Say “statistical prediction”.

These are incredibly useful tools that have nothing to do with “intelligence”.

And say “model trained on plagiarised data”.

Say “bullshit generator”.

Say “internet regurgitator”.

These are also nothing to do with intelligence, but they have the added bonus of being useless, too.

@samir

Attacking the source is better than renaming the source.

Everybody knows what it IS.

Everybody knows what it's CALLED.

Attack what it's called. Then the negative and positive euphemisms get evaluated and/or rejected on their face—based on their common perception.

If you think a negative euphemism will affect anybody here, then you are living in your own specific bubble.

@_chris_real This is silly, IMO. If I attack “artificial intelligence”, I am also attacking spam filtering, protein folding breakthroughs, facial recognition, and pretty much any modern statistical research.

I would like to attack the bullshit machines, thanks.