Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever

• dvlsg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m still mad that ML doesn’t refer to that family of programming languages anymore.

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  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The term machine learning was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel, an IBM employee and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.[9][10] The synonym self-teaching computers was also used in this time period.[11][12]

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

    It wasn’t so much stolen as taken back.

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• ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Luckily that was only the abbreviation and not the actual word. I know that language changes all the time, constantly, but I still find it annoying when a properly established and widely (within reason) used term gets appropriated and hijacked.

  I mean, I guess it happens all the time in with fiction, and in sciences you sometimes run into a situation where an old term just does not fit new observations, but please keep your slimy, grubby, way-too-adhesive, klepto-grappers away from my perfectly fine professional umbrella terms. :(

  Please excuse my rant.

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