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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The word theory is another one.

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[–] ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I find myself thinking this a lot. Someone goes; "and that's my theory about..." And I'm like; that's not a theory, that's a hypothesis...

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Like how some creationists try to dispell evolution by saying that it's only a theory.

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I just say "so is gravity"

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[–] yoyolll@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Idk if that helps your point as it’s simultaneously one of the most studied and least understood things in physics. Although I doubt a creationist could mount that argument.

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago

The point is it's not just a guess with no evidence which is what they think a theory is.

If they came back with that you try and explain that's why it's called a theory and not a fact.

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

But that's just a theory, a gaaaame theory

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

Matpat is a fascist piece of shit.

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[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

AI. In the real world, AI is any computer process that can make decisions as if it were smart. Expert systems, genetic algorithms, hell even fuzzy logic. A smart lightbulb is artificially smart. Artificially intelligent.

In movies and bad tech blogs, AI means a sapient machine and that's why LLMs aren't actually AI.