It does have to be an LLM; when people talk about AI these days, they're talking about LLMs; that's the common framing of the discussion. Linking to unrelated ML to argue that AI has benefits is disingenuous.

> when people talk about AI these days, they're talking about LLMs

If AI means LLMs now, somebody should probably tell Waymo, Sora, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and AlphaFold/Go. They must've missed the memo.