"AI" is a muddied term

I've seen a lot of news lately about how this-or-that thing is using "artificial intelligence" now, and I'm frustrated with not knowing what kind of artificial intelligence is being used. Large Language Models (LLMs) are the technology behind Generative AI - things like Chat GPT, Claude Code, Nazi Grok, etc. Machine Learning is the technology behind Large Language Models. We've had Machine Learning technology for decades. ML is definitely a form of "artificial intelligence", and I suspect many of the reports these days about "artificial intelligence" are machine-learning but are not LLMs. One example is: Some hospitals are using Palantir software to monitor patient vitals to detect sepsis before hospital staff would detect sepsis. This has saved over 900 lives, the report said. The report only referred to it as "artificial intelligence". So is it a Large Language Model? Is it Generative AI? I doubt it. It is probably a smaller & more specifically-trained model. It was probably trained…