AI Sauce
Language Log 2025-04-13
This should add some zest to the debate over AI.
She's not the only one. I've seen a lot of people mix up AI and A1.
Selected readings
- "AI (and human ingenuity) to the rescue" (2/6/24)
- "AI encroachments" (7/21/23)
- "The AI threat: keep calm and carry on" (6/29/23)
- "'Tomato sauce' in Cantonese, with a trigger warning" (10/30/23)
- "'Sauce' and 'caravanserai': linguistic notes from southeast Texas" (1/4/12) — with 97 substantial comments, this is one of the richest collections of notes on the catsup conundrum available anywhere, with plentiful, flavorful observations on "sauce".
- "Ketchup", a virtuoso blog post on The Language of Food (9/2/09) by Dan Jurafsky
The last two posts together are definitive.
[h.t. François Lang\