re: People talking about AI “taking over” always make me laugh.

I always felt AI meant a computer / program with actual intelligence, emotion, and awareness. Essentially life but in 1s and 0s.

Now we have a fast search engine that can piece together information from available online sources and it’s being marketed as AI.

It just sounds like a fast computer / program to me. Like a calculator made the need to do math obsolete, now your need to input email addresses for sales emails can be done by a program?

This doesn’t feel like AI to me. Just automation, a program. Faster processing computers have been taking over manual processes since they were invented. Wake me up when they are making decisions for entertainment or self preservation purposes, not plagiarizing papers for college kids or taking care of a sales teams email list