Time To Call It AI Again

For many years, people have been skeptical about AI. So much so that the term "AI" has been derided variously as misleading, vague, or fantasy. I have been disappointed by AI chatbots since I first got interested in natural language processing as a child, but after chatting frequently with a GPT-3 over the course of many months, I'm convinced: It's time to drop our polite euphemisms for AI. It's time to admit that machines can be intelligent. We can admit that machines can learn how to tell if somebody on Twitter is angry or happy. Whether or not that photo is a cat. How to generate photorealistic images of people. But we're afraid to call any of these behaviors intelligent.