2026 Should be the Year We All Stop Saying "AI" and Call Things What They Really Are
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The Schneier book about "AI" [sic] isn't done yet, but I slowly make my way through it and feed our favourite bird. I was planning or at least hoping to finish the book in 2025, but seeing what a disaster "AI" (slop) turns out to be I think "AI" will be mostly abandoned like "blockchains" and "metaverse" within months, maybe by year's end. It won't just vanish overnight, but the excitement associated with it is wearing off; the media budget (to generate paid-for hype) is running out.
Can we ask peers, friends, family etc. to stop saying "AI"? That might work.
See, if someone refers to a chatbot, then OK, fine. Call it "LLM" or "chatbot". Don't give anyone the satisfaction of this misguided belief there's any intelligence there. █
Image source: Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)