Whenever there's a big controversy, especially when it's about whether a "this" is or isn't a "that", the first thing I assume is that people are trying to make

Whenever there's a big controversy, especially when it's about whether a "this" is or isn't a "that", the first thing I assume is that people are trying to make a taxonomy out of a continuum. I believe AI is like that. Just as there's a continuum from replicating molecule to god-like alien, there's an analogous continuum from a NAND gate to strong AI.