army1987 comments on Singularity Institute is now Machine Intelligence Research Institute - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 31 January 2013 08:25AM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 31 January 2013 12:59:11PM 9 points [-]

To me, "Machine Intelligence" sounds less worn than "Artificial Intelligence", and also seems to more strongly imply that they're talking about general intelligence rather than narrow AI. But I don't know whether those were the actual reasons.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2013 05:31:31PM 2 points [-]

"Machine Intelligence" sounds less worn than "Artificial Intelligence"

It does, but why “worn” is a bad thing in this context? Wouldn't you want a familiar-sounding phrase?

and also seems to more strongly imply that they're talking about general intelligence rather than narrow AI

I get the reverse impression, probably because “artificial intelligence” reminds me of science fiction, whereas “machine intelligence” reminds me of Google Translate and self-driving cars.