The current hype around so-called “Artificial Intelligence”, now

equated with LLMs and generative AI, is more emblematic than

we would like it to be. While the phenomenon and discussions

revolving around it are omnipresent, they usually fail to achieve

not only a more technically informed level, but also a proper on-

tological conceptualization which poses the real question. Most

commonly, AI spikes either eschatological quasireligious fears of

the eradication of mankind (or art), or it is proposed as the solu-

tion to any number of issues (from global climate change to the

riddle of human intelligence). While affectively overvaluing the

possible outcome, we are losing track of what is actually going

on right now… (

The current hype around so-called “Artificial Intelligence”, now

equated with LLMs and generative AI, is more emblematic than

we would like it to be. While the phenomenon and discussions

revolving around it are omnipresent, they usually fail to achieve

not only a more technically informed level, but also a proper on-

tological conceptualization which poses the real question. Most

commonly, AI spikes either eschatological quasireligious fears of

the eradication of mankind (or art), or it is proposed as the solu-

tion to any number of issues (from global climate change to the

riddle of human intelligence). While affectively overvaluing the

possible outcome, we are losing track of what is actually going

on right now. (Václav Janosöik)