Marketable names (buzzwords) are very powerful. If we’d replace AI by more realistic terms such as "curve fitting", "hyperparameters tuning" or "decision tree b

Marketable names (buzzwords) are very powerful. If we’d replace AI by more realistic terms such as "curve fitting", "hyperparameters tuning" or "decision tree building" the limitations would be very clear from the state, and the hype could be kept in check. A supervisor of mine tried once to make me switch to more AI-based thing by telling me my research field was niche, and asking if "AI in education" wasn’t something bigger and more interesting (I replied no). In retrospect I should have asked him the question back by rephrasing it like proposed above.