🔗 AI Effect

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The AI effect is a phenomenon in which advances in artificial intelligence lead to a redefinition of what is considered intelligence, such that capabilities achieved by AI systems are no longer regarded as examples of "real" intelligence.

The concept has been used to describe both a cognitive tendency and a sociotechnical pattern, in which successful AI techniques are reclassified as routine computation or absorbed into other domains.

Historian Pamela McCorduck described this as a recurring feature of AI research, noting that once a problem is solved, it is no longer considered evidence of intelligence. Researcher Rodney Brooks similarly observed that once systems are understood, they are often regarded as "just computation".