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The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t mean human-level consciousness or sci-fi-style general intelligence - that’s a specific subset called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In reality, AI refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.
Large language models fall well within this definition. They're narrow AIs - highly specialized, not general - but still part of the broader AI category. When people say "this isn't real AI," they’re often working from a fictional or futuristic idea of what AI should be, rather than how the term has actually been used in computer science for decades.
these type of visualisations always come to mind when people say things are not AI