1131

Old comic, more relevant than ever (www.smbc-comics.com)

submitted 4 months ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

74 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-9

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 99 points 4 months ago

I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word "crypto"

[-] dvlsg@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm still mad that ML was stolen and doesn't make people think about the ML family of programming languages anymore.

[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

The term machine learning was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel, an IBM employee and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.[9][10] The synonym self-teaching computers was also used in this time period.[11][12]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

It wasn't so much stolen as taken back.

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 22 points 4 months ago

Luckily that was only the abbreviation and not the actual word. I know that language changes all the time, constantly, but I still find it annoying when a properly established and widely (within reason) used term gets appropriated and hijacked.

I mean, I guess it happens all the time in with fiction, and in sciences you sometimes run into a situation where an old term just does not fit new observations, but please keep your slimy, grubby, way-too-adhesive, klepto-grappers away from my perfectly fine professional umbrella terms. :(

Please excuse my rant.