Unhype Artificial 'Intelligence'! A proposal to replace the deceiving terminology of AI.
Creators: name: Hunger, Francis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
AI Critique
AI Ethics
Hype

description: Artificial Intelligence as a field of research and also its criticism is dominated by notions such as ‘intelligence’, ‘learning’ or ‘neuronal’. This paper discusses how the use of anthropomorphising language is fueling AI hype. AI hype involves many promises, such as that ‘AI can be creative’, or ‘AI can solve world hunger’. This hype is problematic since it covers up the negative consequences of AI use. Instead, the author proposes to use alternative terminology such as: ‘Automated Pattern Recognition’, ‘Machine Conditioning’, or ‘Weighted Network’.
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