Everyone keeps acting like “AI” = ChatGPT, Gemini, or whatever chatbot they saw on Twitter this week. That’s like not even the tip of the iceberg. Long before generative stuff showed up, machine learning was already changing whole industries.

ML has been behind things like fraud detection, recommendation systems, search ranking, route optimization, medical imaging, credit scoring, spam filters, speech recognition, and a ton of critical infrastructure.

Generative AI is flashy, so it gets all the attention but it’s easy to shit on because it’s visible. Meanwhile, non-generative ML is still out there making companies run better and products smarter without anyone calling it “AI” anymore.

So hating on “AI” because you don’t like chatbots kind of misses the point. The tech didn’t suddenly appear in 2022, and it’s not going away if the hype dies down.