The problem isn’t that “everything is AI” - it’s that people think AI means way more than it actually does.
That superintelligent sci-fi assistant you’re picturing? That’s called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Both are subcategories of AI, but they’re worlds apart from Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are intelligent in a narrow sense: they’re good at one thing - churning out natural-sounding language - but they’re not generally intelligent.
If every cheating bitch is an AI, then so is the Dancer of the Boreal Valley.
The problem isn’t that “everything is AI” - it’s that people think AI means way more than it actually does.
That superintelligent sci-fi assistant you’re picturing? That’s called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Both are subcategories of AI, but they’re worlds apart from Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are intelligent in a narrow sense: they’re good at one thing - churning out natural-sounding language - but they’re not generally intelligent.
Every AGI is AI, but not every AI is AGI.