> a better term than artificial intelligence Agreed, it's a problematic term that conflates theoretical research with better search results. Deep learning and

> a better term than artificial intelligence Agreed, it's a problematic term that conflates theoretical research with better search results. Deep learning and machine learning (ML) are both unromanticised (un-hyped) terms. In some cases, it's just tooling with a better interface. As we have done with other complex computing systems (e.g. Deep Blue, Watson), we might just end up naming it a computing system for querying, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS We would like a neutral term for such a system, and in this sense it's better to call it "A.I." than to make a verb from google or bing or other corporate name. But in refined cases, such tooling may offer a credible (as in "believable") human experience, like Weizenbaum's Eliza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA). Some users of Eliza fully believed that Eliza listened and understood at a profound human level. Eliza was a simple computer programme. Computing systems are not humans. They have no accountability in real life. People may be so comfortable with the user-experience that they cannot distinguish it from interacting with another human. That doesn't make the computer system alive and accountable. And if it's run by a corporation, it will almost certainly make big promises while energetically seeking to avoid accountability. ^_^