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

The terminology would just change. Really, after the _last_ AI crash, the first time that people uttered the dread word AI (except in the context of games) was with generative AI; before that, anything a bit AI-y just got tagged 'ML'. 'ML' covers a lot of sins.

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ML is a lot more accurate to what many of these current 'AI' products do anyway. The AI wave is ultimately about branding more so than any particular threshold of ability.

I think you're right - if there is a large AI crash that sours people on the term for a while, most of these products are just gonna stick around in some more marketable format.

Looking back at industry people pretending like ChatGPT was some frighteningly intelligent very-nearly-general-intelligence type of thing, you kinda wonder if they were deliberately doing a marketing stunt or just bought their own hype.

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