I really like how Ted Chiang has become the nation's resident Explainer Of That Whole AI Thing. He's the right person for the job: Extremely smart, works in tech, is not impressed by jargon and despite having the brain that created the truly alien aliens of Arrival, seems to be comfortably pro-human
Recently one of my city's official pages posted on FB a well-intentioned post about fears of jobs being taken by A.I. and listed off some things that I can't remember right now, but to which I had to comment that none of them were actually A.I., just automation. Many don't understand the difference.
Bah, I thought that was a vacant position 😡
I think a better term for it would be, applied compute. We're applied compute too. Just a lot more complicated & intricate. People are overlooking a profound lesson from the rise of these large models; sufficiently large systems lead to increasingly unexpected emergent properties/behaviors.
This is a weird year to have got around to reading the Lifecycle of Software Objects