@glyph Added this just now, a thing I learned from https://social.juanlu.space/@astrojuanlu/111714012496518004 which gave me an excuse to link to https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/project-cybersyn/ (I'll never skip an excuse to link to that)
Casual thought: maybe a good term for "artificial intelligence" that's actually intelligent... is intelligence!
@simon A problem I see is that the colloquial use of “intelligence” implies conscious agency, and brings with a whole host of assumptions that are not warranted with artificial system, and that can cause huge problems.
![Juan Luis pointed me to this fascinating little snippet tucked away in the references section on Wikipedia’s History of Artificial Intelligence, quoting John McCarthy in 1988:
[O]ne of the reasons for inventing the term “artificial intelligence” was to escape association with “cybernetics”. Its concentration on analog feedback seemed misguided, and I wished to avoid having either to accept Norbert (not Robert) Wiener as a guru or having to argue with him.
So part of the reason he coined the term AI was kind of petty! This is also a neat excuse for me to link to one of my favourite podcast episodes, 99% Invisible on Project Cybersyn (only tangentially related but it’s so good!)](/proxy/post_attachment/144076/1b490c3cd0.png "Juan Luis pointed me to this fascinating little snippet tucked away in the references section on Wikipedia’s History of Artificial Intelligence, quoting John McCarthy in 1988:
[O]ne of the reasons for inventing the term “artificial intelligence” was to escape association with “cybernetics”. Its concentration on analog feedback seemed misguided, and I wished to avoid having either to accept Norbert (not Robert) Wiener as a guru or having to argue with him.
So part of the reason he coined the term AI was kind of petty! This is also a neat excuse for me to link to one of my favourite podcast episodes, 99% Invisible on Project Cybersyn (only tangentially related but it’s so good!)")
