This is their go to motte-and-Bailey argument fallacy. Say something outlandish, get called out on it, retreat behind something more reasonable and how no one notices before sallying forth with unreasonable claims again.

Yeah machine learning for medical research has been around for a lot longer than LLMs. LLMs do not do medical research, they are just really expensive and fancy "next word" auto-correct generators.

I feel like anything involving electricity will be called AI fairly soon.

I cant believe how many people give strong opinions on generative ai when they cant even distinguish it from the much more general term machine learning