20 terms
Culture & Big Ideas
The slang, debates, and big-picture ideas that AI has added to everyday language.
- accelerationismnounin tech culture, the view that AI and technology should be developed as fast as possible, because faster progress brings more…
- AI companionnounan AI character or chatbot designed for ongoing personal conversation, friendship, or emotional support
- AI psychosisnoun(informal) a term used in the media for cases in which people develop strong false beliefs after long, intense conversations with…
- AI slopnountrendinglow-quality AI-generated content produced in bulk, such as spammy articles, strange images, and fake videos, that clutters feeds…
- AI winternouna period when interest, funding, and progress in AI fall sharply after expectations are not met
- artificial general intelligencenountrendinga hypothetical AI that can understand, learn, and perform virtually any intellectual task a human can, at least as well as a human
- artificial superintelligencenounhypothetical AI that is far more capable than the best humans in nearly every field, including science, strategy, and social…
- bitter lessonnounthe observation that, over the long run, simple general methods that use more computation beat clever methods built on human…
- clankernoun(slang, mocking) a robot or AI system, used jokingly or to express frustration with AI
- cognitive debtnountrendingthe long-term cost to your own thinking skills that may build up when you hand writing, reasoning, or remembering over to AI…
- doomernoun(often dismissive) a person who believes advanced AI is likely to cause catastrophe and argues for slowing or stopping its…
- generative AInountrendingAI that creates new content, such as text, images, music, video, or code, in response to a prompt, rather than only sorting or…
- glazingnountrending(slang) excessive, undeserved praise; often used to complain that a chatbot flatters the user instead of giving honest feedback
- jagged frontiernounthe uneven boundary of what AI can do well: it may handle a hard task brilliantly yet fail at one that seems much easier
- parasocialadjectivedescribing a one-sided relationship in which a person feels close to someone or something that does not know them in the same…
- singularitynouna hypothetical future point at which technological growth, driven by AI that improves itself, becomes so fast that the world…
- stochastic parrotnouna critical description of a language model as something that stitches together plausible text from statistical patterns without…
- tokenmaxxingnountrendingthe practice of pushing employees to use as many AI tokens as possible, treating token spending as a measure of AI adoption or…
- Turing testnouna test of whether a machine can hold a text conversation so well that a person cannot reliably tell it apart from a human
- workslopnountrendingAI-generated work, such as reports, memos, emails, or slides, that looks polished but lacks real substance, so the people who…
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