I see the word "ablate" a lot more often than I used to. I think you used to have to be a dermatologist to ablate things, but now you can do it as an AI researcher or even a shrimp farmer.
Among the unexplained jargon in Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep that pertains to theory and practice of creating superintelligence is ablative dissonance ("ablative dissonance was a commonplace of Applied Theology"). It's funny that ablation is now commonplace real-world jargon, for removing part of a deep learning model in order to see what happens. I suppose ablative dissonance in the real world, could refer either to cognitive dissonance in the model caused by removing part of it, or to contradictory evidence arising from different ablation studies...