Headline(t=a): “AI $name isn’t real AI, because it’s just a $latest_buzzword.”
Headline(t=b): “AI doesn’t exist and never will. Humans are the best!”
Headline(t=c): “AI $name beats humans at $task! The singularity is upon us!”
I don’t deny there are plenty of buzzwords around — nor do I deny that AI/ML is glorified statistics with hopeful startups who don’t realise that outsourcing the training to Mechanical Turk won’t provide enough training data — but there are a lot of things that were introduced as AI and which have proven useful, including many things that are now regarded as the better and simpler alternatives to AI/ML.
Let's put the definition aside for a moment. Lets say we have a black box that doctors can put images into, and it will tell if there are areas that look like it might be cancer. Is that AI? Is it an AI if you can teach it what cancer look like?
Given that automation hasn't took over all jobs, I suppose that the solution is "hire people to do it". Correct?
“AI” is like blockchain, mostly useless technology that wastes huge amount of resources where there’s almost always better and way simpler solutions except in very marginal use cases.