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[Local News] Latest news on the erosion of meaning in the English language: speech recognition is now “AI” (m.youtube.com)
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The kicker:

The system isn’t purely run on AI. It also relies on human input to help it learn and become more accurate.

And then

And so far it’s getting high marks from employees

(no employees interviewed or cited)

Who call it “Bo-Linda”

Love to regurgitate company PR material as fact

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The phrase “AI” started out meaning a computer that was actually sentient

When did anybody use it that way?
It's literally impossible to determine for a fact that something or somebody (outside of oneself) is sentient, and our best guess for something being sentient has a requirement for having a nervous system, which artificial computers at least usually do not have, and I'm pretty sure that it did not start getting used in the context of artificial biological computers in mind.
I don't think anybody ever used the word 'AI' that way.

Pretty sure that 'AI' was never an actual term. Just a way to refer to sufficiently capable computers (with standards depending heavily on context, but I'm pretty sure usually including the ability to learn in some way).

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When did anybody use it that way?

    In the 90s? I mean, up to the mid to late 00s? By, like, almost everybody?

    and I'm pretty sure that it did not start getting used in the context of artificial biological computers in mind.

    No, it was used in the context of non-biological, sentient computers. It doesn’t matter whether or not such a thing is actually possible, that’s the way that it was used. I don’t understand why you shifted the topic to artificial biological beings and said that people weren’t using “AI” to describe that.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    In the 90s? I mean, up to the mid to late 00s? By, like, almost everybody?

    Pretty sure that most people consider only things with nervous systems to be able to have qualia, which is a requirement for sentience.

    No, it was used in the context of non-biological, sentient computers

    This thread is the first time I encounter somebody using 'AI' to refer to something sentient in general.

    I don’t understand why you shifted the topic to artificial biological beings and said that people weren’t using “AI” to describe that

    Because most people don't seem to think that non-biological things can have qualia (well, some religious people do seem to think that some non-biological things do, but, in that case, those things are non-material, so we can add being material to the relevant list of requirements). Unless my assessment is wildly incorrect and there are people who think so, none of them used 'AI' to refer to artificial non-biological things that are sentient.

    In the case of people who think that there are material non-biological things that are sentient, I'd like to ask them how they make guesses about this stuff, and whether or not they consider their PCs as sentient, and if not, why not.

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