Professor Alan Smeaton:

There is a lot of AI-washing. I have been working in this area for multiple decades, as my colleague said earlier. Now I look back at some of the stuff I did in the past, which I would have just called a form of linear regression. That is now being branded as AI. There is a great deal of dumbing down of what is branded as AI. The definition of AI remains very close to the OECD one, that is, something that is able to classify, predict, recommend or generate content in a way which is on a par with what a human is able to do.