Sadly those of us hoping to learn about making popcorn are forced to look elsewhere.

Yes, kernel is an overloaded term. This is about functions running on GPUs, not Operating System core functionality.

"AI" now refers to things like ChatGPT - this is ML related (machine learning) which is the thing that used to be called AI six years ago

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No, it is ML/AI related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method