When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
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Preprint available from my publications page:
@emilymbender This looks great. I am eager to read your preprint, but am getting a 404 for this URL:
https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Bender-AI-2026.pdf
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@emilymbender I'd love to read the pre-print. I don't know if the link is live (yet), but I tried it now and it gave me a 404.
https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Bender-AI-2026.pdfwas the location the pre-print linked me to.@gregdosh Thank you -- should be fixed now.
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@emilymbender This looks great. I am eager to read your preprint, but am getting a 404 for this URL:
https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Bender-AI-2026.pdf
@aarbrk Should be fixed now. Please try again.
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@david_chisnall Did I ask you?
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@aarbrk Should be fixed now. Please try again.
@emilymbender All better! Thanks so much.
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
@emilymbender been looking forward to this thank you for sharing
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
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@david_chisnall @emilymbender I found both OP's short answer and ToC more accurate.
Presence of "ML", especially at the layer folks are engaging with it at, is not important for something to be part of the "AI" con.
But yeah in general let's not step in with a gendered dynamic of correcting (or even amending) experts' statements in their own fields.
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
@emilymbender don't forget: AI is automated bias and discrimination for usual or unusual reasons.
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
This comment is here only as a break from the the mansplaining.
(Also, ty for posting here)
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@jlperuyero My dude, I am literally posting the encyclopedia entry that I wrote on this topic -- each of those headings is expanded. And yet, you feel the need to correct what I am saying? I'd be astonished at the hubris but then I remember this is Mansplainodon, so yeah.
@emilymbender
I've been following you for some time, and that should be a hint on my according with your work.
But if you take a minimal comment, intending only agreement with your message, as mansplaining, maybe you'll find useful adding some "NO INTERACTING PLEASE" banner to your account.
So sad. So many barriers, trenches, walls and barbed wires set up between real people. No wonder more and more are turning towards IA. -
When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
@emilymbender Artificial data collection. Intelligence is data collection in English. So is the CIA not a very smart US agency, but the data collection agency for the US. Intelligenz is in German beyond that. Therefore AI is not smart.
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
@emilymbender
As the old joke goes:- If you're broke, you do statistics.
- If you have a research grant, you do machine learning.
- If you're a venture capitalist, you do #AI.
And given how the term “AI” has inflated like a third-world currency – what we have no does not merit the term, it's just “generative models” – one may add:
- If you're a Silicon Valley startup, you do #AGI.
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@emilymbender don't forget: AI is automated bias and discrimination for usual or unusual reasons.
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
@emilymbender@dair-community.social It really is the blockchain of software buzzwords.
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@emilymbender
I've been following you for some time, and that should be a hint on my according with your work.
But if you take a minimal comment, intending only agreement with your message, as mansplaining, maybe you'll find useful adding some "NO INTERACTING PLEASE" banner to your account.
So sad. So many barriers, trenches, walls and barbed wires set up between real people. No wonder more and more are turning towards IA.@jlperuyero I have no way of knowing how long anyone has been following me so can't take that as a hint, no.
I am not putting up any barriers. I am asking for you to NOT contribute to the absolute chorus of mansplaining that is mastodon.
If your intent is agreement, then acknowledge what I said rather than correcting!
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
@emilymbender Thank you for continuing to clear up our understanding of the expression "AI", and esp. in important reference sources like OUP. I find I often have to reach for very authoritative sources to back up perspectives that goes against the mainstream infatuation with chatbots.
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".
But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:
when people ask me what AI means, I say
A senior PhD with some programming skills said: thanks to AI, I was able to do in a few hours what normally takes a week
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Good programmer: I'm not that strong in python, so when I need a python "snippet" I find AI saves me a lot of time
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Senior and IMO very good engineer overseeing a staff of 25 people:
If you don't have AI skills, or are unwilling to learn, we are not gonna hire you - and that is not next year, it is today
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65 yro female neighbor, college educated: I use AI all the time, it is so helpfulshrugs
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@jlperuyero I have no way of knowing how long anyone has been following me so can't take that as a hint, no.
I am not putting up any barriers. I am asking for you to NOT contribute to the absolute chorus of mansplaining that is mastodon.
If your intent is agreement, then acknowledge what I said rather than correcting!
@emilymbender
Adding is not correcting. Nothing that you have said sounds wrong to me. Reinforcing should be interpreted as agreement, at least in my environment. And consider that,
- english is not my mother tongue
- I've never travelled to an english speaking country
- I have to struggle with an spanish autocorrect to write this
Greetings from the not-so-privileged side of the world. -
@emilymbender
Adding is not correcting. Nothing that you have said sounds wrong to me. Reinforcing should be interpreted as agreement, at least in my environment. And consider that,
- english is not my mother tongue
- I've never travelled to an english speaking country
- I have to struggle with an spanish autocorrect to write this
Greetings from the not-so-privileged side of the world.Adding reads as correcting: you are saying I didn't say enough/didn't say the right thing (and saying that without reading what I posted).
I don't think the issue here is L1/L2 so much as male privilege.
You are replying to an expert on the topic and not acknowledging that expertise.
