• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Yes, ‘Artificial Intelligence [AI]’ was literally conjured as a marketing term with the motivation of seeking funding.

    Just because there’s a label invoked to encompass an area of research, doesn’t make it legitimate. There’s plenty of pseudoscientific fields that practitioners believe are worthy, like economics or cryptozoology.

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      17 hours ago

      like economics or cryptozoology.

      that’s really not fair. not every practitioner is from the Austrian School of Cryptids