In my opinion, as AI was oversold for too long, it was was easy to dismiss it. Classical image processing was marketed as “AI”. Doomsday predictions about AI seemed laughable, just as SkyNet in the Terminator seemed unrealistic.

The early ChatGPT versions were also pretty silly and equally oversold.

At this point, the popular messaging of AI is still 90% fiction but the remaining real 10% is now a force to be reckoned with.

Companies laying off Indian call center employees to replace with AI is something I never would have dreamed of.

My experience of using AI as a search engine has surprised me. I never expected an overgrown pile of matrices to work that well.