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Can we please make the distinction between Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Intelligence?
Mass Effect used this to great effect.
An AI is a fully actualized Intelligence. A sentient being. It can think and feel and it is genuine intelligence. What we would call AGI.
A VI is a Virtual Intelligence. That's a chatbot or LLM. A program made to mimic intelligence.
In Mass Effect VI were used as tour guides and as the user facing interface to relay information.
I think the whole space would greatly benefit from making that distinction clear.
No matter what you and I call "real" AI, marketers are going to misuse the term on everything.
We used to call these kinds of things Assistive Intelligences. But the marketing departments gonna market.