But don't forget the near antonym ELIZA effect, helpfully linked from the same Wikipedia page. People love to project cognitive explanations onto any complex sy

But don't forget the near antonym ELIZA effect, helpfully linked from the same Wikipedia page. People love to project cognitive explanations onto any complex system behaviors that they observe. I only briefly toured the AI field over 25 years ago after the prior AI winter was old news. I remember a couple epigrams heard from specialists at the time: "AI is just advanced algorithms", which I think is a (slightly bitter, mostly pragmatic) reflection on the AI effect by people who had had to adjust their outlooks after that AI winter. "Play syntactic games, win syntactic prizes", which I think was meant to remind one of the ever-present ELIZA effect. My biggest worry about this current AI hype cycle is for how it will be marketed with the same kind of obfuscation the Web 2.0 and after user-driven content distribution systems. I'm afraid most consumers do not understand how much smoke and mirrors is involved in making products seem smarter and more authoritative than they actually are. How users themselves subconsciously cover real gaps in the correctness or completeness of the products and put more faith in them than is really warranted.