AI has always been a marketing term. As soon as it has a useful application it is named around its utility. Search, recognition, generation, classification, etc

AI has always been a marketing term. As soon as it has a useful application it is named around its utility. Search, recognition, generation, classification, etc. AI is the term you use when you can't easily describe what you're doing. It's true that in the early years, much of the investment was public money—but the above still stands.