I prefer to call the tools and systems people generally refer to as Artificial Intelligence today Assisted or Augmented Intelligence, because these tools amplify human capability rather than replace or replicate human intelligence.
In my view, the term Artificial Intelligence should technically apply only to systems that meet at least the following criteria:
1: Do not operate under human-defined goals
2: Do not depend on human-curated data and feedback
3: Exhibit autonomous goal formation
4: Perform cross-domain general reasoning
5: Adapt in open environments without human intervention
6: Possess persistent internal models of the world and of themselves
7: Learn and adapt from each interaction
We also hear a lot about tools like ChatGPT and Gemini evolving into some form of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Personally, I don’t think this will happen. From what I see today, large language models are not the path to AGI.
Hopefully, the AI hype will die down soon, and we’ll start to see more genuinely useful and meaningful applications of the technology we already have.
First dropped: | Last modified: January 28, 2026