five years from now, the term "artificial intelligence" will refer to an entirely different technology
we don't know what it is, but it will be something mostly unrelated to the stuff that has that name today
we say this with confidence because that has consistently been the case every few years since the term was coined in 1956
as soon as everyone understands the latest fad, it feels obvious that it has nothing to do with "intelligence", and we all stop calling it that
we sometimes feel like we're drawing an unreasonably hard line by saying "machine learning" (which is to say, the field that deals with statistical techniques done by computer) or "differentiable neural networks" or "large language models" or whatever other specific thing we actually mean
it often involves pushing back on our friends who find it obvious what "AI" refers to, and think being specific about it is just pointless obscurity
@ireneista i like that you went w/ differentiable; i faintly remember that's what's needed for backprop to work?
don't remember if non-backprop methods also need differentiability
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