Written: Aug. 18, 2026
When my wife tells me to "turn off the lights" before going to bed, she does not say "artificial light",
most lights today are artificial, and when they are natural we usually say sunlight or moonlight.
We no longer bother to say electronic computer to distingish it from a human computer, that
used to be a respectable occupation in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
See
here
Also email (that used to be electronic mail, later becoming e-mail, and now it is shrunk to email) should become
mail, and when you say "the check is in the mail" (and you are using an old-fashioned paper check, rather than venmo)
you should say "snail mail".
See here.
Finally, now that all the heavy lifting in so-called intelligence is starting to be done "artificially", and human thinking is becoming analogous
to hand-made arts-and-crafts, it no longer makes sense to say AI. Let's just drop the A, and call it simply I.
If you did it `all by yourself', w/o any help from our silicon masters, you are welcome to say that you used NI (Natural Intelligence).
See here.