I feel like a lot of AI problems move directly from “this is so terrible that it’s completely useless” to “this capability is a fact of life that I no longer th

I feel like a lot of AI problems move directly from “this is so terrible that it’s completely useless” to “this capability is a fact of life that I no longer think about” without ever passing through a conscious “this doesn’t suck so much anymore” stage. Speech recognition and translation both did this. They’re far from perfect but they’re good enough to get a lot of real-world use, but somehow they still have a reputation for being worthless junk.