I would put money on this being done by someone associated with Musk, Trump, and/or Paxton.

Unrelated question- how many judges on the Texas Supreme Court are members of the Heritage Foundation ?

Lol, no they don’t. Because outside of a scientific setting- the words are synonyms. Listed as such within any modern dictionary or thesaurus. Just because YOU have a narrow understanding of a word, doesn’t make its use outside of that scope wrong.

"the·o·ry /ˈTHirē/ noun noun: theory; plural noun: theories

a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained."

"hy·poth·e·sis /hīˈpäTHəsəs/ noun noun: hypothesis; plural noun: hypotheses

a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation."

Did you fail to read the thread, or do you actually think you said anything that has bearing on the conversation?

If context isn’t given, in a professional setting- then that is a failing on the person communicating. Again, your examples are cleared up with context. The meaning isn’t gone, there is just more than one definition to those words now.

“Lost?”

None of those terms have been lost. They’ve just come to have a wider definition than before. Language evolves over time as people are exposed to new ideas, words, or terms. As non-technical people begin using the terms, the meaning has an understood meaning to the public that most people use (e.g. AI/genAI), and a technical definition that is still understood by those it is relevant to. It just requires context.

Yes, words have meaning- but words also change over time as the public understanding shifts. Just like the word “literally.” It used to mean something that is/should be interpreted exactly as it is said/written/shown. Now “literally” also means “figuratively,” even within the dictionary.

So, no. It isn’t lost, you just need to give context about what form of “AI” you are referring to.

Alternate title: “Company that has caused pretty much the entire memory shortage capitalizes on even shittier version of an already useless product.”