It's not that, it's breathlessly proclaiming that techniques that have been standards for decades are "groundbreaking AI". The hyperbole makes it impossible to

It's not that, it's breathlessly proclaiming that techniques that have been standards for decades are "groundbreaking AI". The hyperbole makes it impossible to get at anything, and if you accurately propose a time tested solution at work these days, it gets dismissed because it's "not AI". So now standard computer vision methods that aren't AI in any way are getting proclaimed as "AI". It's quite annoying, as least from the perspective of someone who does more or less this exact thing (geospatial analysis and data processing of various types) for a living. Folks won't let you use the right tool for the job anymore unless you make wildly hyperbolic claims about how groundbreaking it is and claim it's cutting edge AI. The situation is bad for everyone. There's nothing wrong with using the right tool for the job and accurately describing it. I'm tired of having to inaccurately describe methods to be allowed to use them. E.g. claiming a Hough transform is "deep learning" so folks won't immediately dismiss it and demand I use some completely incorrect approach to a simple problem.