What's not being said about AI is how it's not actually intelligent.

Back in the day when I was studying software engineering, we even had "AI" and Machine Learning. As others have said, what we knew as "AI" back in the day is just now "ML". This is why the differentiation between terms in modern times is misleading. Modern "AI" is just regular software that uses machine learning. **AI is software, it's not actual intelligence.**<br><br>It's not intelligent. The software does what it's been trained to do. You actually have to train the software to be a search engine, or an image generator, or a chatbot. You can't train a piece of software to be a search engine and then it magically becomes a great image generator. It's not intelligent. It's not capable of doing things it's not been trained to do. What the media calls "AI" today, is still machine learning like it was 30 years ago.<br><br>Also, **it's not a great solution to any problem**. This is what really needs to be said, and it's not being said. There's this hype around AI being the solution for any and all problems, and it's just not true. The hype is disingenuous and misleading because this entire thing is just about money. What they're even calling "AI" is not a solution for anything, nor is it a very good "solution" for anything. It's just software that isn't very good for anything, any more than any other software.<br><br>You can train a piece of software to be a chatbot, to generate text, to generate images, etc. But the output of this software is not useful for anything. The images are incoherent, the text is incoherent, the search engine results are useless, etc. It's not useful for anything. You can't even train a piece of software to generate an image because it doesn't know what an image is, or what it should look like. **There is no such thing as a search engine trained to find the most relevant results because we as humans don't even know what "relevance" is**. And if we don't know what relevance is, how are we going to train a piece of software to generate relevant results? This is why search engine results are becoming completely useless. **There is no such thing as a chatbot trained to answer questions because there is no such thing as a question you can train a software to answer.**<br><br>I know several people who have working careers in "AI". They are all very intelligent, very capable people, and I'm sure they're all doing a great job. This is not about the people working in "AI", nor is it about machine learning. This is about the very misleading and disingenuous media hype around "AI". They are all telling you a lie. They're telling you a lie while flying high on the AI hype. **Most of it is just for profit.**