Yes "nuclear Winter" was the preexisting cultural artifact. Instead of tossing it off to indicate a world rendered sterile by misuse or overuse of AI, they decided to make it mean "a lack of interest or obsession with the subject" in 1984, while the Cold War was raging.

Since then AI (and Google) has been on a culture jamming rampage to repurpose common dictionary words and common phrases in the age of searching for information. As if their computers were never smart enough to make up unique words and simple phrases for concepts to find people talking about them. Or maybe, everyone is talking and no one is searching or listening?

Fifth Generation was the weirdest. Prolog was the way to true AI. Except no sane human can write prologs longer than one page. Seemed like dead end at the time.

In 1970's was one AI success story. Finnish language spell checker was considered Hard AI problem and I saw Fred Karlsson on Xerox Lisp machine demo in Stockholm. Fred realized however soon that all you need is hard work and fixed rule-based state machine written in C.