"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"

Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" by tivert on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @10:15AM (#37844683)

> I'm not a Elon fan but the autopilot in a plane does basically the same (if we are saying that planes and cars do the same thing, which is transport people) that Tesla's or many more manufacturers "autopilot" does on highways.

Even if true, when you talk about consumer marketing, none of that matters.

I don't have name for it, but there's a whole class of bad-faith, deliberately misleading statements that exploit the difference between common and technical understandings (e.g. say something you know most people will inaccurately interpret as X, then fall back to the much narrower Y when challenged).

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Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" by JohnFen on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @10:32AM (#37844893)

I call it "lying". It's a special subset of lying, but the intention is to be deceptive, so it's in that category.

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Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" by devin on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @10:44AM (#37845085)

I’m pretty sure this would match Harry G. Frankfurt’s definition of “bullshit”.

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Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" by iwonthecase on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:59PM (#37849515)

Yes, like GP said: "marketing"

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Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" by bee_rider on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:16AM (#37845555)

I think it is pretty well understood, for example if you look at something like the IEEE code of ethics, that technical professionals have an obligation to honesty beyond just not lying; a requirement to communicate in a way that helps the general public clear up likely misunderstandings.

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