[SeanLuke]

My answer: while 99% of the AI community was busy working on Weak AI, that is, developing systems that could perform tasks that humans can do notionally because of our Big Brains, a tiny fraction of people promoted Hard AI, that is, AI as a philosophical recreation of Lt. Commander Data.

Hard AI has long had a well-deserved jet black reputation as a flakey field filled with armchair philosophers, hucksters, impressarios, and Loebner followers who don't understand the Turing Test. It eventually got so bad that the entire field decided to rebrand itself as "Artificial General Intelligence". But it's the same duck.

[cogman10]

The only difference is the same hucksters are trying to sell the notion that LLMs are or will become AGI through some sort of magic trick or with just one more input.

[adastra22]

“Strong AI” is the traditional term to compare with “Weak AI.”

[SeanLuke]

My bad. Of course it is. Had a brain fart there.