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AI is such an ill-defined word that it's very hard to say what it's definitely not.

Marvin Minsky -- father of classical AI -- pointed out that intelligence is a "suitcase word" [1] which can be stuffed with many different meanings.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/530282a

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I think it is as follows: We call it AI nowadays as long as we cannot clearly easily show how to get to the result, which means the computer did something that seems intelligent to us for the moment. Once we can explain things and write down a concise algorithm, we hesitate to call it AI.

Basically, we call things AI, that we are too stupid to understand.

I think what’s really happened is we get output that’s close enough to normal communications to “feel” human. I could say it’s all a giant trick, which it kind of is, but we’ve also gotten to the point where the trick it also useful for many things that previously didn’t have a good solution.

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