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    [1]    From: Tim Smithers <tim.smithers@cantab.net>
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 39.328: 'AI' vs artificial intelligence (49)

    [2]    From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 39.328: 'AI' vs artificial intelligence (9)


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        Date: 2026-02-13 09:59:10+00:00
        From: Tim Smithers <tim.smithers@cantab.net>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 39.328: 'AI' vs artificial intelligence

Dear Willard,

You say ...

   "...  For us, I'd suppose, the question is how to address
    the common misunderstandings that fuel that Valley,
    wherever located."

By, I suggest, calling them the falsehoods they mostly are,
and not misunderstandings.

-- Tim



> On 13 Feb 2026, at 06:58, Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:
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>        Date: 2026-02-12 07:13:22+00:00
>        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
>        Subject: 'AI' vs. 'artificial intelligence'
>
> When in informal discussion, I am told, computer science students at
> Stanford sometimes say that they want to 'do' AI, not artificial
> intelligence, meaning that they want jobs in lucrative positions as
> engineers in in Silicon Valley (I would say, of gadgets with the
> appearance of intelligence), not research posts exploring the questions
> Tim Smithers writes about. For us, I'd suppose, the question is how to
> address the common misunderstandings that fuel that Valley, wherever
> located.
>
> More comments?
>
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty,
> Professor emeritus, King's College London;
> Editor, Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts,
>   Sciences and Humanities (Berghahn); Humanist
> www.mccarty.org.uk

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        Date: 2026-02-13 16:04:53+00:00
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 39.328: 'AI' vs artificial intelligence

Nah, they aren't common misunderstandings. I think we aren't seeing what's
going on until we see this discourse as being driven by the profit-motive
of private investors seeking a quick return on their investment. You can
always sell a myth more easily than sound thinking.

I don't talk about AI much anymore because I'm not willing to help sell
someone else's product unless they're paying me to do so.

Jim R


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