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We really need to stop calling things "AI" like it's an algorithm. There's image recognition, collective intelligence, neural networks, path finding, and pattern recognition, sure, and they've all been called AI, but functionally they have almost nothing to do with each other.
For computer scientists this year has been a sonofabitch to communicate through.
But "AI" is the umbrella term for all of them. What you said is the equivalent of saying:
All of the things you've mentioned are correctly referred to as AI, and since most people do not understand the nuances of neural networks vs hard coded algorithms (and anything in-between), AI is an acceptable term for something that demonstrates results that comes about from a computer "thinking" and making shaved decisions.
Btw, just about every image recognition system out there is a neural network itself or has a neural network in the processing chain.
I like how you stole my comment and I’m downvoted.
I think you're getting downvoted because in this thread you're coming off as an angry gatekeeper type, and internet forums tend to hate that. I'm not saying you're an actual angry gatekeeper; however, that's the vibe.
There's a lot of things in language use that annoys the crap out of me, too. I could write a long boring list of egg-corns, and words that people commonly misspell or mispronounce that really trigger me. But if I did, some dude with a PhD in linguistics would tut-tut me and tell me not to be so prescriptivist (or whatever).
Anyway, my point is, I think you're right about the "old people" misuse of AI as an umbrella term. But, also be open to the common opinion that people who police language are often seen as cranky old cranks, too.