Not really ? « Inflated » expectations doesn't mean NO expectations... People are still throwing « AI » around as a buzzword like it's something distinct from

Not really ? « Inflated » expectations doesn't mean NO expectations... People are still throwing « AI » around as a buzzword like it's something distinct from a computer program, in fact the situation got worse because non-neural network programs are somehow dismissed as « not AI » now. Autonomous cars are still nowhere to be seen, even more so for « General « AI » ». The singularity isn't much on track either looking at Kurzweil's predictions : we should have had molecular manufacturers by now, and nanobots connecting our brains to the Internet, extending our lives, and brain scanning people to recreate their avatars when they are dead, don't seem like they are going to happen by the 2030s either. (2045 is still far enough away that I wouldn't completely bet against a singularity by then.) (And Kurzweil doesn't get to blame it on misunderstanding the exponential function : how people have a too linear view of the future and tend to overestimate changes in the near future, but underestimate them in the long term !)