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Old comic, more relevant than ever (www.smbc-comics.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word "crypto"

[–] dvlsg 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm still mad that ML was stolen and doesn't make people think about the ML family of programming languages anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 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]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

It wasn't so much stolen as taken back.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 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.