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 · 16h 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 · 16h ago

Great point.-

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

yawpitch · 15h ago

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

Bluestein · 15h ago

I second this, totally.-

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

yawpitch · 13h ago

Yes, but to where?

Bluestein · 11h 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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