From a conversation today, I wrote the following - and I'm probably not the first to think this.
Well, "AI" is a curious variation on Clarke's third law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Becoming instead: Any sufficiently advanced magic is easily misunderstood as actual technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
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