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by tavavex 459 days ago
Yes, I agree that the rise of gAI has had a major impact on this, but the fact that the meaning of AI in CS and AI in sci-fi are different was also very apparent before all this happened. Marketing and finance people have been trying to associate the hard-math, grounded-in-reality AI with "it's magical, it's smart like a human!" many times before, this time they just were very successful at it.
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Yes indeed, I think you are completely right on that