[tkellogg]

Somewhere in 2024 I noticed that "AI" shifted to no longer include "machine learning" and is now closer to "GenAI" but still bigger than that. It was never a strict definition, and was always shifting, but it made a big shift last year to no longer include classical ML. Even fairly technical people recognize the shift.

[poslathian]

I’ve worked in this field for 20+ years and as far as I can tell the only consistent colloquial definition of AI is “things lay people are surprised a computer can do right now”

[mjburgess]

AI has always been a marketing term for computer science research -- right from the inception. It's a sin of academia, not the public.

[jedbrown]

The colloquial definitions have always been more cultural than technical, but it's become more acute recently.

> I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai

[JackeJR]

It swings both ways. In some circles, logistic regression is AI, in others, only AGI is AI.