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I'm not even understanding what AI is at this point because there's no delineation between moderately sophisticated algorithms and things that are orders of magnitude more complex.
I mean, if something like multisampling came out today we'd all know how it'd be marketed
AI is a ridiculous broad term these days. Everybody had been slapping the label on anything. It's kinda like saying "transportation" and it means anything between babies crawling up to wrap drive and teleportation.
Because most of them are AI
It's just once AI becomes useful (and not magical), we tend to stop calling it AI unless AI gets more VC money.
It's called the AI effect
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Technically speaking how I differentiate it is:
The AI buzzword means machine learning. You give it a massive dataset and it identifies correlations.
Regular hand-coded AI is mostly simple state machines.