AI as Punishment for Rejecting LLMs

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is just a marketing term. AI only has meaning inside the context of Science Fiction stories. Thus, AI means whatever a company wants it to mean. What Is AI Depends On The Year In the history of “Machine Learning” (ML) algorithms, the latest and greatest technology that ML can do tends to be called “AI”. When speech to text was first done using statistical pattern matching way back in the 1990s, despite the fact that it needed to be trained on each user’s voice for a good hour, it was called AI by some marketing folks....

8 May 2026 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Current Thoughts on AI and LLMs (2026)

AI Is A Moving Goalpost Artificial Intelligence does not exist. Artificial General Intelligence does not actually mean anything. Both of these things come from Science-Fiction writing. Both of these things have been co-opted by companies selling Large Language Model technology. Machine Learning is a technology, and it underlies ALL of this. Good and bad. Both AI and AGI are marketing terms, and in the last 4 years, they each have had their meaning changed, multiple times, by the people who are selling them....

1 May 2026 · 9 min · Gary Allen Vollink