Why I don't like the term "AI"
Content note: I replicate some ableist language in this post for the sake of calling it out as ableist. In games research, some people take pains to distinguish artificial intelligence from computational intelligence ( Wikipedia summary ), with the primary issue being that AI cares more about replicating human behavior, while CI is "human-behavior-inspired" approaches to solving concrete problems. I don't strongly identify with one of these sub-areas more than the other; the extent to which I hold an opinion is mainly that I find the distinction a bit silly, given that the practical effects seem mainly to be that there are two conferences (CIG and AIIDE) that attract the same people, and a journal (TCIAIG - Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games) that seems to resolve the problem by replacing instances of "AI" with "CI/AI." I have a vague, un-citeable memory of hearing another argument from people who dis