What is an “AI?”

You know what really pisses me off? It's how many different technologies we've put under the "ai umbrella," but the annoying part is that it's not technically wrong. It makes the likelihood of someone mistaking ai in vacuum cleaners with ai in medicine to be of the same quality. AI has become a marketing band aid for every quarterly goal. Look at this mit article, it promises ai to "speak objects into existence." Low and behold the only function of ai was a glorified Boolean replacement to interpret natural language.

I think that's what everyone is missing; ai is such a game changer because it can improve everything. Jenson Huang recently said that when Nvidia researched Alexnet and the advancements that it made for image recognition, Nvidia realized the underlying methodology was not just limited to image recognition. While consumer facing ai is very new, Nvidia gave open ai one of the only chips from a multi billion dollar project to openai well before anyone had heard of chat gpt. The only innovation about ai in the last decade is that it can scale with compute resources.

Moore's law has allowed ai a chance, because no one expected everyone to have data center level supercomputers in their pockets. What people don't realize about Moore's law is that you can also look at the price of compute halves in value. The abs system on your car brakes has more compute than what took us to the moon.

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-researchers-speak-objects-existence-using-ai-robotics-1205