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Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI

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On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts

Most people who work in the field of “Artificial Intelligence” rarely use the term. Referring to something as “AI” is a flag you probably don’t know much about the industry. People in the field instead talk about specific technologies and techniques: machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, natural language processing (NLP), transformers, embeddings, reinforcement learning, large language models (LLM), robotics, latent space diffusion, and generative adversarial networks (GAN). AI becomes a catchall term for this wide array of disciplines that are only united by a hand-wavey philosoph

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