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It's not how you define AI, but it's AI as everyone else defines it. Feel free to shake your tiny fist in impotent rage though.
And frankly LLMs are the biggest change to the industry since "indexed search". The hype is expected, and deserved.
We're throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what works. It will take years to sort through all the terrible ideas to find the good ones. Though we've already hit on some great uses so far - AI development tools are amazing already and are likely to get better.
Then we may as well define my left shoe as AI for all the good subjective arbitrary definition does. Objective reality is what it is, and what's being called "AI" objectively is not. If you wanted to give it a name with accuracy it would be "comparison and extrapolation engine" but there's no intelligence behind it beyond what the human designer had. Artificial is accurate though.
This has been standard usage for nearly 70 years. I highly recommend reading the original proposal by McCarthy et al. from 1955: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html
Arguing that AI is not AI is like arguing that irrational numbers are not "irrational" because they are not "deprived of reason".
Edit: You might be thinking of "artificial general intelligence", which is a theoretical sub-category of AI. Anyone claiming they have AGI or will have AGI within a decade should be treated with great skepticism.
@GenderNeutralBro @db2
20 or 30 years ago it was assured that the only variable types we would need now would be int and char......
Because those were the only types rational to humans.....