@MartyFouts Yes, absolutely… The things I cite (the grift, the claims to inevitability, and rolling with literally incorrect answers) are all new to (or otherwise greatly exaggerated by) the LLM-inspired capture of “AI” as a term. I was just using it the same as the OP (and not expecting the post to go beyond my immediate followers). I'm 29 years out from taking my first AI course in college, and there are plenty of traditional AI and ML methods that make sense (and we've used in our work), because the outputs are at least somewhat measurable or we better understand the ways they are and are not deterministic.