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Robert McNees
@mcnees@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies.

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Robert McNees
@mcnees@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.

A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).

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Cassandrich
@dalias@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@mcnees Honestly get rid of "machine learning" too. It's a marketing term like "AI", intended to bedazzle non experts. Unless you're qualified to elaborate more on the specific methods involved, call it "statistical analysis".

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