To me, “Machine Intelligence” sounds less worn than “Artificial Intelligence”, and also seems to more strongly imply that they’re talking about general intelligence rather than narrow AI. But I don’t know whether those were the actual reasons.
I was under the impression that this use of the word “machine” was archaic—it was used decades ago for naming things like machine learning, machine translation, and the Association for Computing Machinery. I don’t immediately see why a more familiar term wasn’t used.
“Machine Intelligence” sounds less worn than “Artificial Intelligence”
It does, but why “worn” is a bad thing in this context? Wouldn’t you want a familiar-sounding phrase?
and also seems to more strongly imply that they’re talking about general intelligence rather than narrow AI
I get the reverse impression, probably because “artificial intelligence” reminds me of science fiction, whereas “machine intelligence” reminds me of Google Translate and self-driving cars.
Agreed. Also is narrower, you could plausibly argue that lots of things were ‘artificial intelligence’ (e.g. bioengineered neural goop) but machine is closer to what we’re actually talking about.
To me, “Machine Intelligence” sounds less worn than “Artificial Intelligence”, and also seems to more strongly imply that they’re talking about general intelligence rather than narrow AI. But I don’t know whether those were the actual reasons.
I was under the impression that this use of the word “machine” was archaic—it was used decades ago for naming things like machine learning, machine translation, and the Association for Computing Machinery. I don’t immediately see why a more familiar term wasn’t used.
Possibly for the “M”. Imagine “AIRI” instead of “MIRI”.
It does, but why “worn” is a bad thing in this context? Wouldn’t you want a familiar-sounding phrase?
I get the reverse impression, probably because “artificial intelligence” reminds me of science fiction, whereas “machine intelligence” reminds me of Google Translate and self-driving cars.
Agreed. Also is narrower, you could plausibly argue that lots of things were ‘artificial intelligence’ (e.g. bioengineered neural goop) but machine is closer to what we’re actually talking about.
The first hit on “AIRI” isn’t as good.