Most of AI isn't generative — and generative AI isn't thinking.
Since text-generating AI went mainstream, an entire industry started using one word — AI — to mean one product. That collapse is expensive. It hides the half-century of techniques quietly running everything from fraud detection to global logistics, and it dresses up a next-word predictor as something that reasons. The first pillar of AI literacy is learning to see the field at its real size, and knowing what the model in front of you is actually doing when it answers.
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