I credit their sense of discipline in using the more accurate term. They know they can only stand to lose down the road if they over-hype notions if "artificial intelligence" now when it really is a misnomer. And they're probably betting that's what will happen to their competition who more enthusiastically use the phrase for marketing.
Probably more that they aren't as heavily invested in selling the idea that we are close to smart general AI.
Compare it to Musk who constantly talks up the idea while the actual AI systems his company has deployed are killing people.
That's a perfect example of someone who might get bitten in the ass by the over-selling thing, too.
Musk's systems are more A than I.
Probably because "machine learning" is a more accurate naming while "artificial intelligence" is the buzzword for non-tech people. There’s nothing "intelligent" in machine learning.
Re:AI at Google: our principles
by thanatropism on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:06PM
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Impending AI Winter poised to make a lot of people look like fools?
It wasn't mentioned one time. Never in the presentations, none of the talk titles had it included either.
Machine Learning was mentioned and Apple also released many updates related to it, but never did they call it artificially intelligent, or use the phrase artificial intelligence. Not a single time. Go ahead and watch it if you haven't already. They'll never say those words.
Pretty remarkable considering it was a developer conference, I wonder why?