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by mindcrime 1119 days ago
In this specific context, this phenomenon is so common that it literally has the name "The AI Effect".[1]

Author Pamela McCorduck writes: "It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect