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2026-07-08 16:45 UTC

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852712.003.0067

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@emilymbender@dair-community.social 2026-07-08 16:46

Preprint available from my publications page: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/publications/

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@Sikorsky78@infosec.exchange 2026-07-08 22:25

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Thanks for sharing, I find it very useful.

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@tuomov@mastodon.social 2026-07-08 17:33

@emilymbender@dair-community.social As the old joke goes: - If you're broke, you do statistics. - If you have a research grant, you do machine learning. - If you're a venture capitalist, you do #AI. And given how the term “AI” has inflated like a third-world currency – what we have now does not merit the term, it's just “generative models” – one may add: - If you're a Silicon Valley startup, you do #AGI.

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@franciswashere@mastodon.social 2026-07-08 17:13

#AI #artificialintelligence

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@CptSuperlative@toot.cat 2026-07-08 17:22

@emilymbender@dair-community.social This comment is here only as a break from the the mansplaining. (Also, ty for posting here)

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@canleaf@mastodon.social 2026-07-08 17:31

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Artificial data collection. Intelligence is data collection in English. So is the CIA not a very smart US agency, but the data collection agency for the US. Intelligenz is in German beyond that. Therefore AI is not smart.

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