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"AI" does exist but it's a narrative/political movement of centralization and disempowerment.
But it's not tech and when talking about the stochastic systems popular these days the term shouldn't be used. It obscures way more than it helps and throws so many things together that one might want to look into in detail.
So if you are talking about "AI" is political project/narrative, go apeshit. Otherwise we probably should try to be more specific about what we mean and ask especially the "AI" boosters, what it is specifically they mean.
Side benefit: When you correctly call that fancy new "assistant" a stochastic word generator, a lot of the magic goes "poof".
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