AI

AI is a label that moves. It points at whatever computers have just learned to do well, and right now that means large language models.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 5, 20261 min read

The word has meant different things every decade: rule engines in the 1980s, game search in the 1990s, image recognition in the 2010s. Once a technique works reliably it stops being called AI and the label moves on.

So in a technical sentence the word is close to useless. Say model, or agent, or the thing you actually mean.

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