# We Called It "Artificial." We Should Have Said the Aliens Were Coming.

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Podcast: [Artificial Intelligence Growth Architect | Connor with Honor | Real Estate Consultant](https://stenobird.com/podcast/artificial-intelligence-growth-architect-connor-with-honor-real-estate-consultant-861967)
Published: 2026-06-17T00:00:00+00:00
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AI didn't come — it arrived. And if we could rewind to the end of 2022 when ChatGPT launched, the right framing would have been: a very smart alien race lands in three or four years, prepare now. We didn't. We called it a next-word predictor and moved on. In this episode I reframe the whole thing: why "artificial" undersells an intelligence that comprehends and solves problems no human can, what a lifetime of watching technology revolutions (party lines to cell phones) taught me about this on...

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