I don’t agree with that. Having my grown up in that era there is t any shortage of content in popular culture that have smart or sentient AI: - Asimov novels (

I don’t agree with that. Having my grown up in that era there is t any shortage of content in popular culture that have smart or sentient AI: - Asimov novels (as you’ve referenced yourself) - 2001 (Hal) - Star Wars (R2D2 & C3PO for example) - Buck Rogers in the 25th C (Twiki & Theopolis) - Battlestar Galactica (Cylons) - Alien (Ash) - Star Trek TOS (I forget the episode names but there’s a few with smart AI) - Star Trek: The Motion Picture (V’Ger) …All from either the same era as 2XL or before. The problem with “AI” as a term is that it can mean multiple things (like “HD”, “smart”, etc) so it will be used and abused by whoever feels it might sell a few copies of something. An example of this is computer games. AI has never been used to refer sentience but rather the programmed logic of a computer opponent. Then you have AI in the research sense; which are the technologies another poster described. You have AI in stories, TV and movies which are often depicted as human-like intelligence, complex reasoning, or even outright sentient. It was never a term that had one definitive technical definition. Now you do see researchers retrofitting different classifications of “AI” in a hope to clear up the confusion around the use of the term “AI”. But that’s a more recent (in comparison) development and certainly isn’t something the general populous are aware of.