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I don't think the rub is with AI in general. Everyone working in tech knows how pervasive ML especially has become. I think the contention is with AI suddenly

I don't think the rub is with AI in general. Everyone working in tech knows how pervasive ML especially has become. I think the contention is with AI suddenly being redefined as only referring to language models, and the view that intelligence has been solved by these models. There has clearly been a massive marketing push to label these models as the "one true AI", both from companies and from AI influencers. This is where the echo chamber exists, and it's easy to get stuck in it. Maybe I am wrong and we have solved intelligence. But I seriously doubt it.

oldandboring 3y ago
I agree completely, and I think the 'tipping point' came because of ChatGPT. And I think it's for two primary reasons: 1. ChatGPT was released for general-purpose use. It's not a data science team at a FAANG company or healthcare or finance enterprise using ML for a specific business need. It's there for anyone to ask it anything. 2. A design decision was made to have ChatGPT output words in "real time" instead of all-at-once after a delay. To the user, that makes it look and feel like it's consciously and actively responding to you in a way that animated ellipses do not. I never knew what it would feel like talking to an AI, but when I first used ChatGPT, I thought: this must be it.