It’s common for popular understanding of a term of art to be very different than the technical meaning of the term. But this misuse of “AI” is even weirder: not only have the snake oil salesman co-opted the popular understanding they have restricted it to mean just LLMs and nothing else.
“AI” 1956-2020: branch of CS that attempts to model aspects of human intelligence; something it has done with varying degrees of success. Sad that it now refers to a massive failure.
Marty Fouts
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