From: Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@gentoo.org>, "Filip Kobierski" <fkobi@pm.me>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for AI related packages
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:08:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHY5MedXyJ4C-jjJH3TVqCUFWzQ-wqJtHUyjtsmr-T0eNKcf8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bju3vm2t.fsf@gentoo.org>
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IMHO, "ai" is an extremely overloaded and over- and mis-used term.
It's nothing but glorified pattern matching, and calling everything "ai"
is very buzzwordy. I'd much rather see it named "ml".
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Arsen Arsenović <arsen@gentoo.org> writes:
>
> > Filip Kobierski <fkobi@pm.me> writes:
> >
> >> On Monday, March 10th, 2025 at 21:40, Alfredo Tupone <tupone@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> >>> To declutter sci-libs and dev-libs from most of the "so called"
> >>> AI packages I think that a new category should be created.
> >>> Maybe sci-ai/ or dev-ai/ or sci-dl/ (deep-learning)
> >>
> >> I really like thi idea.
> >> For better or worse the field is growing and it would be nice
> >> to have a separate category for it.
> >>
> >> In my opinion the category should begin with "sci":
> >> - "sci-ai" feels the most general but buzzwordy;
> >> - "sci-dl" is too specific as not AI is deep learning;
> >> - "sci-ml" (machie learning) in my opinion would be the
> >> best choice as it describes the packages listed clearly.
> >
> > As was mentioned, sci-ml would be confusing with Meta-Language.
> >
> > The term "AI" has a very long and storied history, and covers the entire
> > field of machine learning and then some. I think 'sci-ai' is most
> > fitting as a result (and, besides also being more fitting, it also is
> > not ambiguous).
>
> I agree. I can live with sci-ml if the consensus goes the other way,
> though.
>
>
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-10 20:40 [gentoo-dev] New category for AI related packages Alfredo Tupone
2025-03-10 20:49 ` Eli Schwartz
2025-03-10 20:53 ` Maciej Barć
2025-03-10 22:42 ` Eli Schwartz
2025-03-10 22:59 ` Maciej Barć
2025-03-11 6:44 ` Ulrich Müller
2025-03-12 20:57 ` Eli Schwartz
2025-03-12 18:01 ` Bryan Gardiner
2025-03-10 20:56 ` Filip Kobierski
2025-03-13 13:07 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-03-14 12:22 ` Sam James
2025-03-14 15:08 ` Gordon Pettey [this message]
2025-03-16 12:16 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-03-16 14:52 ` Jaco Kroon
2025-03-10 22:28 ` Ionen Wolkens
2025-03-12 7:47 ` Florian Schmaus
2025-03-12 20:13 ` Alfredo Tupone
2025-03-15 9:09 ` Petr Vaněk
2025-03-15 15:29 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2025-03-16 13:13 ` Ulrich Müller
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