>"AI has been in the public consciousness since well before computers" Not to the point where it has a sizeable impact on day-to-day life. >"quantum computers

>"AI has been in the public consciousness since well before computers" Not to the point where it has a sizeable impact on day-to-day life. >"quantum computers are vaporware" Are you just basing your opinion on D-Wave alone? Plus, they're likely to have a decent impact on crypto, which definitely has meaning beyond mathematicians.