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I cringe every time I hear it. It’s not AI. It’s code. Or if you want to be fancy, call it an LLM if you must.
The real problem is that AI is ill defined and the goal posts move to “wherever we are now plus a little more” and is always not quite there yet. Writing a simple script to take input of user on cli and performing some action on behalf of them is arguably “AI” in that it automates a task that a human would otherwise have to do themselves.
I think it’s probably a lot more useful to talk about a systems capabilities rather than its labels. Can this _ actually drive a car without human intervention? Can this _ actually write software without a coder looking over it and modifying the mistakes? For most domains, we aren’t there yet, where the thing is a human level (or better) autonomous agent.
But i guess it’s no surprise that an industry that exists primarily on hype clings to its stockholder-edging labels and marketing terms.
Until i ask it a question and it complains about wage theft, im not gonna call it an AI.