(Send to friends who think ChatGPT is just a cool new and handy answer machine?)
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Last night my wife was frustrated that here in California she legally can’t purchase a simple red bulb that she wanted which screws into a regular light socket even though it was a LED because the color temperature falls outside the range of California regulations for what’s acceptable for general lighting as spelled out in California Energy Commission Title 20. (You can get a color-changing LED bulb that you set to red but that wasn’t the type she wanted). Not super relevant to AI except for the fact that why the hell are we not allowed to buy that red bulb in the name of energy efficiency when companies are building data centers here that use more power than a damn city??
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Ersatz Intelligence? “Ersatz” says “inferior” and “synthetic”.
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Proving its value, Grok correctly answered the easiest question that ever existed.
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Technically, it means “substitution,” or “replacement.” Like a spare tire type of replacement. Not necessarily inferior, but not the original thing.
So that term could work.
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A very limited scope use case might make sense.
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Mmmmmm… I go with Meriam-Webster’s take on it: “Today, ersatz describes any substitute or imitation, especially when it’s inferior to the original.”
My read: “Ersatz” implies inferiority.
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Etymologically, it just means “replacement, substitution”.
Semantically, it implies (especially in English) “a substitution which you use because you can’t get the original, and if you could get the original you wouldn’t be using the substitution”, so a lesser quality is kind of baked into it.
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… like raisins in a cookie. Sometimes raisins make their mark. 
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Arguably, surrogate intelligence:
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