The words we use to name things change our perception of those things independently of their actual nature. A lot of the hype and mystique around AI is due to our use of terminology from the fields of neuroscience and psychology.
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Take any paper that make heavy use of such metaphors and replace the neuroscience vocabulary with the corresponding terms from mathematics or signal processing (e.g. "fully-connected neural layer" -> "affine transform"). It suddenly sounds very different. It cuts through the hype
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This is true at the level of scientific paper, and even truer in public discourse. The term "AI" encourages people to think that our goal is to create artificial humans. In fact, automating cognition is not about replacing ourselves, it is about augmenting our capabilities.
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It's not an affine transform François - without nonlinear activations the whole thing collapses.
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I’m glad you said this
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