Hot off the press dejargonizations

Calling time on AI jargon

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Bloomberg Opinion’s Parmy Olson rips AI a new one.

Take a closer look at the opening salvo (jargon bombs and red underline emphasis mine)

Parmy takes no prisoners.

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The outstanding Prof.

Gary Marcus

teamed up with WIRED for a video explainer

Well worth reading his post on AI doublespeak:

This Week in AI Doublespeak

///OKTA is the GOAT of Fluffy Subject Lines///

I wish you were more than a million miles away.

///The Great Betrayal///

Which made me think of this

Oh no! I’ve been fired by a for-profit corporation who said it “puts its people first”! How could they?? Monsters!

///10 Billion years of Bollocks///

LinkedIn Editor in Chief Daniel Roth is writing under the influence of product marketing:

Kombucha and Kumbaya Blessings on LinkedIn

There are other things LinkedIn could be doing instead, like fixing this:

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