This is a cute but ultimately wrong argument. It's like saying we live with a black hole because there's one in the center of our galaxy. Yes you could stretch

This is a cute but ultimately wrong argument. It's like saying we live with a black hole because there's one in the center of our galaxy. Yes you could stretch the term of AI to say that a large system made up of people and simple machines is some form of AI, but that's stretching it to the point of becoming meaningless. When people talk about real Artificial Intelligence they usually mean general AI, or at least a specific AI that is capable of human-like decision making. Not Computer Chess and not an auto-stop in a filling pump. Stretching AI to the point of ludicrousness like this seems to serve only the purpose of trying to shut down discussion around human-like AI. Which is not a noble goal. Discussing human-like AI is important, especially before we figure it out. It would have been nice if people in the early 1900s had spent time thinking about the consequences of putting so much carbon into the atmosphere before they did it. Let's not be another generation of people who could have had a lot more forethought than they did.