Man people who complain about cryptocurrencies need to stop calling it "crypto". Crypto is cryptography. People who evangelize cryptocurrencies won't stop calling it "crypto", but the rest of us shouldn't just give that word to them.
If I speak to an audience I want them to understand exactly what I mean. So, I only use "cryptography" and "cryptocurrency" explicitly.
> to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confabulation>
I mean, come on, perfect. But, it seems even M-W has done what a reasonable dictionary should(?) do and has updated the entry to add a "3: (computing)" entry to reflect its modern usage https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hallucination
It's not even more accurate. The problem with hallucinations isn't a "gap in memory". The fundamental problem is that the chatbots are "plausible English text" generators(*), not intelligent agents. As such, no existing term is going to fit perfectly -- it neither hallucinates nor confabulates, it just generates probable token sequences(*) -- so we may as well use a word people know.
(*) I know it's slightly more complicated, especially with RLHF and stuff, but you know what I mean.
No. And astrology isn’t astronomy. And cryptography isn’t crypto. Cryptography is a legitimate field of science, crypto is not.