And the reason why the dotcom timing was off was because the internet hadn't already permeated everyday life. That's when the network effect paid off and consol

And the reason why the dotcom timing was off was because the internet hadn't already permeated everyday life. That's when the network effect paid off and consolidation merged startups into giants. Will the same happen to AI? Uses of AI and "AI" seem to take very well to today's world. Everybody wants a piece of the action be it in ad networks, big data, surveillance, cat ear filters or fake nude pics. People are much more technologically literate and the concept in any form will not land in barren land. It's sometimes even frustrating the way people expect a certain level of intelligence from basic applications (eg. try to implement a search function that is not error-flexible and you'll get angry comments). Internet paved the way to having lots of redundant data we don't know what to do with. I think the world is all too ready to welcome advances in AI, and it's in fact ignored what it will do to financial systems or personal lives.