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Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by OJFord on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:27PM (#28951024)
I don't know how useful/meaningful any of this is? It's just language quirks, and different languages have different quirks. In Hindi for example the verb 'to walk' is the same as ~'to operate' - so you can 'walk', and 'walk a bicycle', etc.
Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says by robbrown451 on Friday October 22, 2021 @12:07AM (#28953664)
It's useful when someone asks things like "will machines ever be able to think?"

And you might say "well, define 'think' ". In other words, that's not that interesting a question, since it is more about semantics than about reality.

Or you say it as Djykstra did, which I think is pretty clever.

And yes, your example about how words differ in different languages does a good job of explaining how this is just semantics. If a question becomes moot in a different language, it is a good indicator that the question is less about reality than it is about semantics.