AI = Transformer

There is a nuanced understanding lost here.

I feel this kind of wordings will harm post-transformer AI in the future as investors will look at past articles like this to try to decide if an AI investment is worth it. Founders will need to explain why their AI is different and the usage of AI for different technologies will greatly affect their funding.

It really doesn't matter. The distinction is gone and there's no point fighting it.

There will be a new term for it, like it was Machine Learning rather than AI back in 2017.

Maybe Autonomous Control or something.

Or the "Once it works, no one calls it AI anymore."

or Tesler's Theorem :

"Intelligence is whatever machines haven't done yet."

This happens every time. We have had two “AI winters” already.

AI has always been the name for the state of the art of complex problem solving.