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terminology

25 notes carry this tag — 14 claims, 3 questions, 6 captures, 1 myth, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the word was a compliment
  essay drafting 2026-09-10 · llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history, citation-genealogy

Everything else

• The word 'hallucination' for AI errors began as a compliment in computer vision (Baker & Kanade, 2000) before flipping negative in NLP — and the 2023 paper the vault credited with coining 'artificial hallucination' actually borrowed the term from a 2022 survey
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history
• Alkaissi & McFarlane's 2023 Cureus paper attributes 'artificial hallucination' to Ji et al.'s 2022 survey rather than coining the term themselves
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, medical-ai, nlp-history
• Baker & Kanade's 2000 face-recognition paper uses 'hallucinated' to mean algorithmically-added plausible detail, presented as success
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history
• Ji et al.'s 2022 NLG survey explicitly documents that 'hallucination' originated in computer vision with a positive meaning before acquiring its negative NLP sense
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history
• Does Richard Sutton's 1984 PhD dissertation actually use the phrase 'structural credit assignment' — the field-lore origin of the term?
  capture promoted 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, barto
• Sutton's 1984 dissertation abstract, in his own words, frames credit assignment entirely in temporal terms and never uses 'structural'
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology
• The earliest confirmed instance of Sutton personally using the phrase 'structural credit assignment' is a 2023 talk, presented as a problem the field still hasn't solved — not a callback to his own 1984 dissertation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology
• Sutton's own retrospective one-line summary of his 1984 thesis names 'temporal credit assignment,' not 'structural' — and Wikipedia independently corroborates the same framing
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology
• Forsythe did not coin 'computer science' — the term was already entering the language, per Knuth's 1972 CACM retrospective
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, myth-ledger
• Knuth credits Louis Fein with perceiving computer science's rise before Forsythe — a 1957 Stanford graduate-school proposal and a 1961 paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, louis-fein
• Does Forsythe's 1965 Technical Report CS26 contain the 'art and science of exploiting automatic digital computers' definition, and did he coin 'computer science'?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, myth-ledger
• Verify the origin of the term 'deep learning' against primaries: Dechter (1986), Aizenberg et al. (2000), and the Hinton-era popularization (c. 2006)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, priority-dispute, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Rina Dechter's 1986 AAAI paper genuinely uses 'deep learning' and 'shallow learning' as terms of art — for depth of constraint-satisfaction search, not neural networks
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, dechter, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Neither of Hinton's two canonical 2006 papers — the Neural Computation deep-belief-net paper or the Science autoencoder paper — contains the phrase 'deep learning' anywhere in its text
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, hinton, ai-history, history-of-ml
• The term 'deep learning' predates Hinton: introduced to machine learning by Rina Dechter (1986) and applied to neural networks by Aizenberg et al. (2000); Hinton popularized it c. 2006
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · deep-learning, terminology, priority-dispute, ai-history, misattribution
• Verify the origin of the term 'deep learning' against primaries: Dechter (1986), Aizenberg et al. (2000), and the Hinton-era popularization (c. 2006)
  question open 2026-07-12 · deep-learning, terminology, priority-dispute, ai-history, verification
• George Forsythe, credited with coining 'computer science,' built Stanford's department out of numerical analysis
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computer-science-history, institutional-history, numerical-analysis, terminology, myth-ledger
• Does Forsythe's 1965 Technical Report CS26 contain the 'art and science of exploiting automatic digital computers' definition, and did he coin 'computer science'?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · computer-science-history, terminology, verification, numerical-analysis, myth-ledger
• Does the term or framing "credit assignment" appear in Minsky & Papert's 1969 Perceptrons, and in what context?
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, terminology, history-of-ml
• Who first used the term "structural credit assignment," and in what context?
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, terminology, history-of-ml, reinforcement-learning
• The phrase 'credit-assignment' in Minsky & Papert's Perceptrons appears only in the 1988 Expanded Edition's Epilogue defending Rosenblatt — not in the 1969 original
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, terminology, history-of-ml
• Myth ledger: "the structural credit-assignment problem comes from Minsky (1961)"
  note budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, minsky, sutton, terminology
• Does Richard Sutton's 1984 PhD dissertation actually use the phrase 'structural credit assignment' — the field-lore origin of the term?
  question open 2026-07-09 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology, history-of-ml
• Minsky named and formalized "the credit-assignment problem" in 1961 — as a temporal problem about sequential decisions, not network weights
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · minsky, credit-assignment, history-of-ml, reinforcement-learning, terminology