software written by humans to prove how simple their own cognitive architectures actually are.
It turns out that linguistic intelligence is only a small part of what makes humans themselves, and AI was able to replicate it near entirely, while still being clearly something different. It kinda hurt their feelings being not special though.
Random scientist: Yo I wanna hear Squidward from SpongeBob sing the song "My Way" by Frank Sinatra. I'm going to invent a new form of technology just to hear this. I'm gonna call it "AI"
Actually Indians. Used to describe Jeff Bezos' Amazon "Just Walk Out" shopping experience where AI was used to track purchases but it turned out to be manually controlled by Indiansub-contractors.