If there is no language, one will be invented. This was the case early on in the digital world because, for example, “surfing in cyberspace” sounds a lot better than “looking through electronic information” and the term “artificial intelligence” is much easier to remember than “stochastic neural analog gain calculation”. . That’s what AI was called in the fifties. For the new wave of AI, the terms are now missing again, and nobody is currently finding as many metaphors as the historian and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari. In a guest article for the magazine economist for example, he referred to artificial intelligence as “alien intelligence”, by which he did not mean extraterrestrials, but “non-human intelligence”, as he did in one Interview with the Swiss daily indicator corrected. But for the pop-culture public, his term reads like the title of a film in which not all the main actors survive.
Yuval Noah Harari and the AI debate: When is the TÜV for AI coming? – Culture
