I would like to propose AI as a mundane, overused, and abused word.
AI – Everywhere you go these days, companies say they do things using AI. That’s understandable, since, these days, if you do anything that needs a model or an algorithm, you HAVE to use a flavor of AI. [Ok, I’m not going to into all the different flavors of AI that folks keep jumbling about] But folks don’t say they use electricity, or have a phone number, or an email address, or sorta even say they are in the cloud. We take those for granted. And I want us to accept that for folks to do their magic, they need AI. Yeah, just say you do magic. I really don’t care how you do it, just that you do, and it is useful.*
Back in 2006 and 2007 I put out a string of words I was tired of hearing. Mostly because they became mundane. You can review all my previous ‘Tired Words’ here on this page.
*BTW, śaw a really great company pitch recently. There were doing amazing document creation magic (the client on stage with the founder kept saying how great it was). I mentioned to the founder, ‘What you do is amazing, no need to mention AI.’ She leaned in and smiled, ‘But saying AI makes it easier to raise money.’ Yup. Sums it up.
Also, while I find references to AI tiresome, I don’t seem to mind folks talking about ‘models’ and ‘algorithms’. Why can’t we just use those words?
