Prior to 2021/202-whenever, most sensible people called this stuff deep learning / machine learning etc. For over 15+ years it’s been called machine learning —

Prior to 2021/202-whenever, most sensible people called this stuff deep learning / machine learning etc. For over 15+ years it’s been called machine learning — “getting machines to complete tasks without being explicitly programmed to do so”. since 2021/whenever LLM applications got popular everyone has been mentioning AI. this happened before during the previous mini-hype cycle around 2016-ish where everyone was claiming neural networks were “AI”. even though, historically, they were still referred to by academics as machine learning. no-one serious, who actually works on these things; isn’t interested in making hoardes of $$$ or getting popular on social media, calls this stuff AI. so if there were a wikipedia link one might want to include on this thread, I’d say it would be this one — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising because, let’s face it, advertising/marketing teams selling products using linear regression as “AI” are the ones shifting the definition into utter meaninglessness. so it’s no surprise people on HN, some of whom actually know stuff about things, would be frustrated and annoyed and get tetchy about calling things “AI” (when it isn’t) after 3 sodding years of this hype cycle. i was sick of it after a month. imagine how i feel! - edit, removed line breaks.