Isnt the root that "AI" has come to be equated with "generative AI" in the public (and investor) mind? And since genAI shows great promise but is still in its early days, there is a rush to throw more at it in an attempt to stave off the collapse of the inflated expectations bubble.

The risk then is that genAI implodes and takes down all of the other AI disciplines with it.

Ultimately buyers pay for outcomes, and they are much more important than investors, who pay for the promise of buyers and therefore are susceptible to hype (Sequoia fawning over SBF being a juicy example). Therefore, as a seller, I would be drilling down into how my product solves a problem for the buyer, and not leading with how it gets there (AI). "Contract review in 60 seconds means you save $300 an hour on legal fees, and we have a $100M indemnity clause if we get it wrong" rather than "our AI model blah blah".