What is AI? Everyone thinks they know but no one can agree. And that's a problem

A certain frisson, irony, that MIT speaks to the confusion of meaning behind a field of study MIT is strong in. Where were you when the word leaked out in the. 60s guys? If you didn't want people to be confused, maybe you should have thought about that, back in the day?

Personally, I like to think of AI as applied maths in statistics and optimisation. I think I'd be less oppositional to it, had it not acquired the suck-fest of stupid associated with both "intelligence" and "artificial intelligence" when its not intelligent. It's maths. and a french metric tonne of data.

I have similar qualms about ML, and GAN. Learning has certain overtones.