Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by learnstats2 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:53PM
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I once saw a lecturer teach "AI" that turned out to be statistics techniques first invented circa 1925 written incorrectly in code.
"AI", if it means anything at all, is fast becoming a way of identifying snake-oil products. The explanation is necessary.
Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by stendinator on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:44PM
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How would you rewrite that short passage in a way you think is optimal?
Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by laughinghan on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:46PM
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Your parent comment was praising that passage and wishing more journalists and others would take that as an example of how to describe about AI.
From the author's website, listed at the bottom.
Imagine if journalists and other people posting to the www called "AI" what it actually is, instead of constantly portraying it as something futuristic to capture people's imaginations.
Even terms like "statistical inference" and "automated decision-making" could probably be explained using more common language to be comprehensible to the general public.