Ask HN: Other Names for "Artificial" Intelligence?

8 Bluestein 6 7/24/2025, 8:22:02 AM

Some idiot or another is going to sooner or later attempt to "rename" the technology, publicly, and might get away with it too ...

... were it not for us pesky kids, so ...

... let's beat him to it: What is your preferred/more adequate name for AI?

Comments (6)

qsort · 1d ago

Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term. Serious people already use the name of the actual technology.

LLMs, support vector machines, XGBoost, linear regression, expert systems, prolog interpreters...

Just say what you're actually doing. Artificial intelligence already means nothing.

Bluestein · 1d ago

Great point.-

Question still stands as far as the public perception/nomenclature is concerned, methinks.-

yawpitch · 1d ago

Directed Stupidity… as opposed to the Undirected Stupidity you and I share.

Bluestein · 1d ago

I second this, totally.-

PS. Hey, at least it's directed ...

yawpitch · 1d ago

Yes, but to where?

Bluestein · 1d ago

Valid question, indeed.-

(Hey, at least it is directed :)

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Ask HN: Other Names for "Artificial" Intelligence?

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