Reverting to a lexicon that wasn't cursed
It's actually an initialism, and two words, and it's not a swear word, at least not yet. But multivalent puns aside, I'm feeling 2012 vibes again.
For those who may have missed it, in 2012 Siri was the darling new technology from Apple and everyone was chasing this emergent intelligent service, AKA the personal voice assistant. Many called Siri an "AI," and in many ways it was, and still is. But in the AI research community, it's a specific type of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that uses a technique called "slot filling" — a predefined ontology of applied functions, and far from unstructured idea comprehension.
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