An AI by any other name: Why overhyped technology often fails to live up to its lofty promises | Milwaukee Independent

At that time, “AI” sounded like something out of a science fiction movie, not a technology that I would interact with on a daily basis. But here we are, decades later, and the term “AI” is practically everywhere. It is overused, overhyped, and applied to just about any computer program that exhibits the tiniest bit of adaptability.

I had spent a large portion of my career working with various forms of technology. Back in the 1980s, I tinkered with the rudimentary command-line…