I think AI is way over-hyped. There are quite a few online tech publications right now in which more than half of all articles are AI-related; usually promoting

I think AI is way over-hyped. There are quite a few online tech publications right now in which more than half of all articles are AI-related; usually promoting some gimmicky chat-bot startup or some service that reads your emails to automate stuff (how can that possibly go wrong?), or some AI advertising service (as if advertising isn't targeted enough)... It all sounds useless to me. The vision of the founders of a lot of these companies don't seem to extend beyond their own nose - They can't really see anything past that gigantic mountain of VC money. It seems that for some reason AI has become the last avenue for growth and all VCs are just rushing to pour all their money into it. Researchers with PhDs have been working on more or less the AI technologies for more than 30 years; it's been their life's work; throwing money all over the place isn't going to make them work any faster - It's just going to attract unqualified impostors into the industry. As a founder, it's much easier to come up with a strategy to pocket a good chunk of that VC money for yourself than to actually solve the problem.