Current AI is a marketing term for trained algorithms performing analysis using machine derived statistical models (that's the learning part). The marketing ter

Current AI is a marketing term for trained algorithms performing analysis using machine derived statistical models (that's the learning part). The marketing term was created to help companies raise funding, and then taken over by journalists who are tired of eating dirt and write about any possible fear for the clicks revenue. That's where this really took off, in the public media where any idiot can write anything and somewhere an entire sub-culture believes them.