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Please everyone, consider calling "AI" something more accurate -- they're not intelligent, though definitely 'artificial' as in man-made. I personally like the terms "stochastic parrot" or even just "LLM".
AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it's technically incorrect to conflate the two.
Just using "LLM" is also a bit over-specific, however, as it'd exclude text-to-image models, and others. "GenAI" is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.
That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it's incorrect to call this "AI", good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.
Imagine being able to use all that power for literally anything else like ... oh I don't know ... manufacturing anything. You know, create jobs, jump start the economy. Oh who am I kidding with all these pipe dreams that make sense.