[danaris]

> AI has never, ever, and never will be, about making life better for the average human. It has always been, and always will be, about wealth consolidation and control.

I think here it's useful to separate "AI" as sold and marketed today from "AI" as a CS discipline, a field of study, and a category of tools and techniques.

The field of Artificial Intelligence has always been, at least for the majority of people in it, about improving things for real people.

The LLMs that have garnered huge valuations and an outsized share of everyone's attention in recent years started as part of that field, and grew out of its research and technological advances.

But once companies started seeing how they could monetise it, that's when it started being about wealth consolidation and control.

[dannersy]

I understand and agree with your point, but sadly we must concede that when you say the letters "AI", people now think of the chatbot interfaced, generative technology. It seems rather intentional to me that the definition has been muddied and is a part of the marketing of something that is clearly not artificial intelligence. I apologize for maybe contributing to that reality, but our words have to mean something to the majority of people, and when I say AI now, the general populous relates that to the new definition of snake oil salesmen.