I agree, for most people ‘AI’ is ChatGPT and their perception of the success of AI is based on social media vibes and karma farming hot takes, not a critical academic examination of the state of the field.

I’m not remotely worried about the opinions of random Internet people, many of which are literally children just dogpiling on a negative comment.

Reasonable people understand my point and I don’t care enough about the opinions of idiots to couch my language for their benefit.