For many readers of HN, this article is obviously true. But so obvious that you might wonder if it's newsworthy, a rehashing of what we hear so often: * AI wil

For many readers of HN, this article is obviously true. But so obvious that you might wonder if it's newsworthy, a rehashing of what we hear so often: * AI will take jobs > a prototype inventory checker developed by Bossa Nova Robotics silently glided through the aisles using computer vision to automatically perform a task that humans have done manually for centuries. * VCs move in packs > “We saw a slow trickle in investments in robotics, and suddenly, boom — there seem to be a dozen companies ..." * The rush for talent > “The number of people trying to get the students to drop out of the class halfway through because now they know a little bit of this stuff is crazy.” * The strawman of superintelligence > For some technologists, today’s technical advances are laying the groundwork for truly brilliant machines that will soon have human-level intelligence. * The evocation of AI winter, just to be safe > ...so the commercial enthusiasm ended in disappointment, leading to a period now referred to as the “A.I. Winter.” Add a potted history of Silicon Valley as a "place that reinvents itself" and the Canadian mafia's origin story about deep learning, and you have a recipe for almost any news article about AI, ever. Not much new here.