Yeah, these arguments are reinventing history. People are happy calling basically anything AI[1], up until AI starts getting really good at stuff like natural l

Yeah, these arguments are reinventing history. People are happy calling basically anything AI[1], up until AI starts getting really good at stuff like natural language, and only then is language reinvented to kick it back down. AI has referred to any software that emulates aspects of humanlike decisionmaking to literally any nonzero degree of fidelity for as long as I've been alive. And, like, what's the point anyway? Refusing to call it AI doesn't change its capabilities, for good or ill. It doesn't change that all of the leading capabilities labs bar FAIR really are aiming to build bona fide general intelligence, and even FAIR is named the Fundamental AI Research lab for a reason. [1] eg. Pacman's Ghost AI — a totally cogent term for what sums up to a few lines of code and runs on a Z80. Wikipedia: “Each of the four ghosts has its own unique artificial intelligence (A.I.), or "personality": ...”