There's a meme in some AI circles that "once we understand it, it isn't AI anymore" and things like ML, NLP, and most of the Machine Vision field, while they ca

There's a meme in some AI circles that "once we understand it, it isn't AI anymore" and things like ML, NLP, and most of the Machine Vision field, while they came from AI, have "escaped" and are no longer AI because we've actually figured them out. That's probably some of what you're seeing; it's probably also colliding with "AI is an umbrella over a bunch of technologies, AGI is scifi/fantasy" which is pushing the other way - that one is a little tainted by the whole "intelligence is uniquely human" bit of wishful thinking, where the former is expressing the simpler idea that "I can estimate and ship a product that uses NLP; any estimate about an AI product is a lie"...