The tech industry has spent decades hyping up AI, convincing the public that they have created human-equivalent general-purpose AI because your phone can do goo

The tech industry has spent decades hyping up AI, convincing the public that they have created human-equivalent general-purpose AI because your phone can do good speech recognition that can read answers parsed from Wikipedia or control your house's lights. The tech press goes along with it, painting a vision that AI can do anything. And then we blame the politicians for buying into the hype? Although I do blame the Republicans for defunding Congress's Office of Technology Assessment in 1992, which offered independent, non-partisan, evidence-based assessments of the feasibility of exactly this kind of law.