I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word “crypto”
I’m still mad that ML was stolen and doesn’t make people think about the ML family of programming languages anymore.
The term machine learning was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel, an IBM employee and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.[9][10] The synonym self-teaching computers was also used in this time period.[11][12]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
It wasn’t so much stolen as taken back.
Luckily that was only the abbreviation and not the actual word. I know that language changes all the time, constantly, but I still find it annoying when a properly established and widely (within reason) used term gets appropriated and hijacked.
I mean, I guess it happens all the time in with fiction, and in sciences you sometimes run into a situation where an old term just does not fit new observations, but please keep your slimy, grubby, way-too-adhesive, klepto-grappers away from my perfectly fine professional umbrella terms. :(
Please excuse my rant.
