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Where you put the emphasis in 'artificial intelligence' matters

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The average person... In corporate America. Misunderstands the emphasis of the term artificial intelligence. You can take this thing in two different ways.

Episode 269: Verbal Pollution (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:29:27 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Technical users stress the 'artificial': it isn't genuine intelligence, so they take everything it says with a grain of salt. Non-technical corporate users tend to stress 'intelligence' and trust it. That gap in emphasis explains a lot of how AI is misused.