For non-technical people, terms like Machine Learning, Algorithm, Automation, AI, Neural Networks and 'Magical Powers' are synonymous.. Journalists, marketing teams, and executives choose whichever term generates the most hype and clicks.
I like to describe my job as a software engineer as "wizardry" to people. With the way LLMs are writing code, it's only getting closer to writing actual spells.
> "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
"Like a magic crystal mirror, My computer lets me know Of the other world within it Where my body cannot go / The computer is a gateway
To a world where magic rules
Where the only law is logic
Webs of words the only tools" https://mindstalk.net/filk/world.html
