AI naming poll: "Spicy Regression" or "Basically Statistics"?
ericmitchellai · x · 2026-09-20
A playful poll asks what to call AI if "Artificial Intelligence" is too ineloquent, offering tongue-in-cheek alternatives like "Spicy Regression," "Just Linear Algebra," and "Basically Statistics" — riffing on the old debate over whether AI is really just statistics.
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