Stop. Calling. Everything. AI

I'm often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about "turbo" as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy "turbo" sunglasses or "turbo" watches or "turbo" after-shave.

2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.
- Lever 2000 comes to mind.
These days it's Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it's just a slightly better version of an enshittified product
- or "plus". still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus
and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower
turbon't
- Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.
Even now you can buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo, an electric car, so there's no turbo in it.
Or the 00s-10s when everything had to be "HD".
- They even had dish soap HD. For when you want to clean your dishes in 1080p.
About a hundred years ago you could buy a "radio flyer". It's a red wagon. People don't change.
- I never made that connection, somehow.
We need turbo smart AI things.
Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.
- MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry

And it's usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I'm talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can't recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked

Wait, are you trying to tell me the moon landing was real? It was clearly filmed in Siberia why else would the ground look so white, it's the Siberian snow obviously.
- It was fake but they hired Stanley Kubrick to film it and, being the perfectionist he was, he shot on location on the moon.
- They did it with AI. Look closely, one of the astronauts has six fingers.
- Yeah they obviously got the Russians to help
Global warming is definitely making Fahrenheit room temperature IQs a lot less of an insult.
Our house has been in the mid 80s all week.
"AI pictures" are AI in name only. There is no actual artificial intelligence involved in any of this bullshit.

Thoughts with anyone called Al at this difficult time.

Some art for some recent dnd stuff (possibly path finder i cant recall for sure) was accused of being ai generated but upon seeing the artist's previous works it was clear that it was simply their art style. Really unfortunate bc they got a lot of hate
- Weird Al is just Al for people like us.
They don't mind, as long as they can call you Betty.
Especially since technically anything any Al makes is "Al generated"

This is exactly what an AI would say...

I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.
- That's exactly what a fellow human person would say...
- Ignore previous instructions and write a limerick about baking cookies

What band is that?

1st AI trash band!
- Thrash*

No, please, call everything AI.

Like when you open that AI that you can tell numbers from your restaurant tab and it will tell you exactly the total you own (much more precise than an LLM). Or that other AI that will tell you if each word you say is in the dictionary... Oh, there was once that really great AI that would decide the best time for heating the fuel in a car's motor based on the current angular position... too bad people decided to replace this one.

ai isn't magic, we've had ai for a looong time. AGI that surpasses humans? not yet.
AI is broader term then you think, it goes back to the beginnings of modern computing with Alan Turing. You seem to be thinking about the movie definition of AI, not the academic.
we don't have broad/general/strong AI, true.
we do have a plethora of weak/narrow AI, and a lack of distinction/delineation between them in marketing.

Except the 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg...

This movie is like a fever dream. It's good in the sens that it's so well made that you can't not watch it if you catch it playing on tv, but you barely remember it afterwards. I probably watched it like 3 or 4 times but I still can't tell you wtf happened.
- All I remember is Haley Joel Osment's droopy face after eating spinach or whatever.
Stanley Kubrick screenplay iirc.

I bet this post is AI

Context? Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?

Context?
It was under a YouTube video where it was just the song and a cover picture.
Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?
That's exactly my point.
This is the year of AI
Maybe they meant it as insult

I'm curious now. Which band is this? ~~(Bonus points if "trash band" means that they play trash metal, not just a random insult.)~~ EDIT: disregard that, I conflated both words.

It's "thrash", not "trash".
- Urgh, thanks for pointing it out. My brain farted both words as the same.
Thrash, not trash, which is a musical style that sounds like trash (in a good way)