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Silicon Valley loves jargon—and ‘hill-climbing’ is its favorite new phrase

A term that describes a computer-science algorithm is the metaphor du jour among AI types—and coming soon to a boardroom near you.

SAN FRANCISCO—An industry that loves its buzzwords has a new favorite and, like a rogue artificial-intelligence model, it has broken out of its sandbox and is colonizing new domains.

“Hill-climbing” is the term that is suddenly on lips across Silicon Valley, for reasons that have nothing to do with San Francisco’s dramatic topography or techies’ love of hiking. A niche term of art in machine-learning research, it is proving a handy metaphor for talking about growth and threatening to cross over into wider business-speak.

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