Ask someone from Gen X for their childhood phone number and their best friend's number, and they'll tell you them, even though those numbers have likely been out of service since the 80s. The same is not true for today's iKids (Millennials and Gen Z), who have no interest in wasting brain space for anything that can be accessed so readily on their smart phones.
Worryingly though, almost everything can be accessed on smart phones, so there is no need to remember anything. It seems that we are heading for a time when the iGenerations will "know" everything while knowing nothing. And, such brain laziness could feasibly be leading to a decline in cognitive function. It seems the adage "use it or lose it" might equally apply to our brains as it does our quadriceps.
If the adage is true, then we're all in trouble because, due to proliferation of AI chatbots, creativity and thinking are declining. Nowadays, if you want a poem, a song, a story, an apology letter, a loan agreement, a wedding speech, a tenancy agreement, a covering letter, a parking-fine mitigation, an English translation of a Qur'an verse, or a Space Invaders game written in JavaScript, you can have it at the press of a button within 5 seconds. It's like going to the gym and having a robot thrash the X-trainer for you.
So, how long will it be before we have public brain gyms, places we can go to prevent our brains from going soft? In the meantime, let's exercise our brains by tracking the development of AI. But, if you're an iKid and that's too much work for you, you could always ask an AI chatbot to create a crayon depiction of AI's advancement for you.
Anyway, the emergence of artificial Intelligence (AI) has given rise to lots of new terms and abbreviations. And, let's not forget that AI includes other aspects like robotics, computer vision, speech recognition, sentiment analysis, expert systems, fuzzy systems, and evolutionary computation, each with its own set of abbreviations and terminologies.
This AI glossary is updated regularly. However, there are many other abbreviations that you might encounter depending on the specific area of AI you're dealing with. The field is vast and continually evolving, so new techniques and abbreviations are being developed all the time. If you know an important abbreviation or term that we have missed, please tell us using this form.
The network of physical objects (i.e., "things") that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.
