• FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I feel like that’s one of those things where the conversational use of chemicals and scientific use has drifted apart

    There’s plenty of examples but the only one I can think of is evolution, like In every terrible sci-fi movie ever using evolution to describe the individual evil monster gaining some change

    Anyways 100% agree with you tho

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        8 months ago

        I find myself thinking this a lot. Someone goes; “and that’s my theory about…” And I’m like; that’s not a theory, that’s a hypothesis…

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            8 months ago

            Idk if that helps your point as it’s simultaneously one of the most studied and least understood things in physics. Although I doubt a creationist could mount that argument.

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              The point is it’s not just a guess with no evidence which is what they think a theory is.

              If they came back with that you try and explain that’s why it’s called a theory and not a fact.

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      8 months ago

      AI. In the real world, AI is any computer process that can make decisions as if it were smart. Expert systems, genetic algorithms, hell even fuzzy logic. A smart lightbulb is artificially smart. Artificially intelligent.

      In movies and bad tech blogs, AI means a sapient machine and that’s why LLMs aren’t actually AI.