Post #4078622

2026-07-25 03:22 UTC

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116811128152569506 Some great alternative terms and phrases to communicate about "AI" without adopting all the misleading marketing terms: "artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation" "prompt → text input" "answer → output" "chatbot / conversational agent → conversation simulator" "who’s right? → is the machine output correct?" (& more in the article)

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@Jam123@mstdn.ca 2026-07-25 03:24

@alexanderbird@mstdn.ca pretty much how i feel about "AI"

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@energisch_@troet.cafe 2026-07-25 06:09

@alexanderbird@mstdn.ca love it! "probabilistic automation"

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@HeadbangingPony@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 06:14

@alexanderbird@mstdn.ca Thank you for pointing out. This, hopefully, will change my speaking habits. I start with this one: "Probabilistic unverified software manipulator" instead of "AI agent".

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@_RyekDarkener_@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 06:45

@alexanderbird@mstdn.ca Words matter. Words form reality in our brains.

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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 07:36

@alexanderbird@mstdn.ca Too bad it's substantially incorrect. If you have to lie to make a case, you don't have a case. If you need to exaggerate or make emotive appeals because your actual case lacks merit, you don't have a case. It's a tool. Obviously it's not going anywhere. It's a very immature technology which is seeing rather irrational early adoption inappropriately but that's hardly it's fault. We can thank the last century of science fiction for wildly placing peoples expectations so badly.

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@MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us 2026-07-27 17:07

@alexanderbird@mstdn.ca AI is a set of different technologies. The best way of talking about it is by pointing to which one specifically is relevant to a conversation.

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