bgainor quoted The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
To put it bluntly, “AI” is a marketing term. It doesn’t refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase “artificial intelligence” is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their technology is similar to humans, able to do things that, in fact, intrinsically require human judgment, perception, or creativity.
— The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna (Page 5)