‘Agentic’ or ‘agent’ is getting a fair bit of currency (‘agentic AI workflow’, ‘LM agent’, ‘AI agent’, etc.)
I think that’s fine, and basically accurate. Sometimes it means you need to qualify how autonomous or bounded/unbounded the looping is.
‘Model’ really gets my goat, is a terrible, already hopelessly conflated term, and should be banned for talking about NNs in almost all contexts. (I have been dragged kicking and screaming into using this sometimes and I’m still sad about it.) ‘Reasoning model’ is no better. ‘Foundation model’ and ‘language model’ are OK, but only if actually talking about foundation and/or language models per se, absent the various finetuning and scaffoldings that are involved in actual AI systems. (‘Reward model’ and ‘world model’ and such are very reasonable uses.)
I’m sorry to say that ‘neuro-scaffold’ isn’t going to take off, and I think that’s fine. ‘Scaffold’ is very useful on its own, but ‘neuro-scaffold’ is a mouthful and also doesn’t really connote the specific thing you’re meaning to invoke, which is the loopiness and the connection to actuators.
‘Agentic’ or ‘agent’ is getting a fair bit of currency (‘agentic AI workflow’, ‘LM agent’, ‘AI agent’, etc.)
I think that’s fine, and basically accurate. Sometimes it means you need to qualify how autonomous or bounded/unbounded the looping is.
‘Model’ really gets my goat, is a terrible, already hopelessly conflated term, and should be banned for talking about NNs in almost all contexts. (I have been dragged kicking and screaming into using this sometimes and I’m still sad about it.) ‘Reasoning model’ is no better. ‘Foundation model’ and ‘language model’ are OK, but only if actually talking about foundation and/or language models per se, absent the various finetuning and scaffoldings that are involved in actual AI systems. (‘Reward model’ and ‘world model’ and such are very reasonable uses.)
I’m sorry to say that ‘neuro-scaffold’ isn’t going to take off, and I think that’s fine. ‘Scaffold’ is very useful on its own, but ‘neuro-scaffold’ is a mouthful and also doesn’t really connote the specific thing you’re meaning to invoke, which is the loopiness and the connection to actuators.