Warning: People keep calling basic automation 'AI' and it's muddying the water for real innovation.

I saw a project labeled 'AI-powered' at a tech meetup in Austin, but it was just a simple scripted bot, and that mislabeling makes it harder to find actual machine learning breakthroughs.

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janab871mo ago

My Austin meetup last week showed me how bad this naming problem really is.

betty_ward1mo ago

Saw an article about how confusing names can really slow down team projects. Makes total sense after hearing your Austin story.

mark_fisher4810d ago

And that scripted bot probably just matched keywords or something basic. That's like calling a wrench a "robotic fastening system." I saw this spreadsheet tool at a construction expo that claimed to use "AI" but it just sorted data by color. People are slapping that label on anything with an if/then statement now. Real machine learning is out there but it's getting buried under all this hype. It's making it HARD for small businesses to know what to actually buy.