Using term "AI" also facilitates occupying the human "interface space",
by squeezing out other humans from it. In other words, bots are coming
to real space (almost wrote "meatspace" :)
People "talk" to "voice assistants". More and more service phone lines
use IVR and insist on user "talking" to it (hint: keep pressing 0 - the
industry calls that "zeroing out".) Autonomous cars are not quite there
yet, but take a look at the piece of meat they hire to sit in the
driver's seat to comply with laws - it has a total confidence in the
machine.
Talking and confidence spent on machines are not spent on humans. There
is only so much of it.
The next big one are sex robots - they will eventually become good
enough to blur the difference, and emotions will get occupied. After you
are done, she'll whisper in your ear: "Vote for her, darling".
How do you zero out of that?
Meaningless, inconsistent, but persistent substitute of computational
terms, processes and products with "AI" is how IT industry is
protecting themselves from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_explanation and any other
attempts to ask questions. AI noise is how silicon valley is working
on alibi, getting ready to shift the blame for everything what goes
wrong onto "emancipated machine intellect".sk
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