I think people are just excited to see something they perceive as new. They will tire of it once they realize its just big-data + machine learning with new win

I think people are just excited to see something they perceive as new. They will tire of it once they realize its just big-data + machine learning with new window dressing. AI will not exist in our great-great grandchildren's lifetimes. Elon's voice changer for example is just advanced auto-tuning. Very advanced, but still auto-tuning nonetheless. Machine learning tools like ChatGPT do not show their work. The HN crowd will especially realize that there is a tool that people will get answers from that provides no sources or references, no links, just an opaque box with magic algorithms basically carrying on from the lessons learned in the social media platforms to tweak society. These tools will start off in benevolent mode and gradually devolve into malevolent mode and by the time people realize it they will have bought into these tools and built financial dependencies and business models around them.