

I like to just call them by what they do. Image generation model, text to speech model, word guessing engine. All of these things are within the computational field called “artificial intelligence,” but not a one of them contains a lick of actual intelligence. Now that people outside computational academics are exposed to the term, I don’t want to confuse them into thinking intelligence has been achieved. It’s just an aspirational name, and folks are confused enough already.
Probably, but now he’s being told it makes him look weak. Might even work, he gets pretty pissy about that sort of thing.