"AI is a marketing term" bugs me: it's a 70-year-old research field, says dev
johncrickett · x · 2026-10-06
Pushing back on the line "AI is just a marketing term," developer John Crickett argues AI is a research field established 70 years ago with the goal of achieving AGI. The goal hasn't been reached, but the field has produced many useful developments, tools and techniques — and it's much bigger than LLMs/GPTs/Generative AI. The take sparked a heated debate in the replies.
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