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We called it “strong AI” in the 90s

But that's not the same thing at all. Searle used the terms "strong AI" and "weak AI" to distinguish between systems emulating humans that were "actually conscious" and systems emulating humans in behavior only. The whole distinction was bogus.

https://www.gavinjensen.com/blog/2018/ai-weak-strong

If you google the terms you will see that the meanings have shifted since then to mean AGI and ANI ... such shifts occur because people aren't familiar with the original technical meanings ... e.g., the way "meme" now means a gif you post on social media, as opposed to Dawkins' original concept of a cultural thought component akin to a gene.

It must have had shifted already by 96-97. I remember how I used it in AI discussions back then and it meant “the opposite of narrow AI”, which makes it very similar to how we use “AGI” term today. Consciousness was considered to be a potentially emergent phenomenon, not a required property.

Searle coined the term in 1980. It wouldn't be surprising that people started using it in some other sense within 16 years, for the reason I noted.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/#...

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