Not sure if this is the best community to post in; please let me know if there's a more appropriate one. AFAIK Aii@programming.dev is meant for news and articles only.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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I don't understand the desire to argue against the terms being used here when it fits both the common and academic usages of "AI"
That kind of depends how you define autonomy. Whichever way, I'm not sure I get how "virtual" is a better descriptor for implying a lack of it than "artificial" is.
Also by "we don’t actually know how it works" do you mean that we can't explain why a particular "decision" was made by an AI, or do you mean that we don't know how AI works in general? If it's the first that's generally true, if it's the second I disagree (we know a lot, but still have a lot to learn).