The word &quot;AI&quot; has always had a vague meaning. Ever since the 50&#x27;s when people called simple logic systems AI. Everything from chatbots to video game bots have been called AI.<p>The problem is that &quot;AI is whatever computers can&#x27;t do yet&quot;. Hard looking problems in computer science all get called &quot;AI&quot;. So once they are solved, they continue using the name. But solved problems obviously can&#x27;t be &quot;intelligent&quot;.<p>The word you are looking for is &quot;AGI&quot;. But there is no such thing as AGI yet, so no real projects or research can honestly use the word.<p>Anyway more accurate terminology would be &quot;machine learning&quot;. That&#x27;s what word the researchers themselves use. Only media calls it &quot;AI&quot; so much.<p>In this case it would be machine learning models that set the parameters for other machine learning models. There&#x27;s nothing in the article about &quot;AIs building AIs&quot;, although it does automate some of the work of machine learning practitioners. I&#x27;ve always said that machine learning is one of the fields in a unique position to automate itself away.