this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the info. Still seems needlessly specific to distinguish it from AI, when AI is already being watered down...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It is not distinguished from AI, just a subcategory of it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

AI isn't being watered down, quite the opposite.

Path finding, computer vision, optical character recognition, machine learning and large language models were all unambiguously considered to be vAI technology before they were widespread, and now the media and general public tend to avoid the term for all but the most recent developments.

It's called The AI Effect