Without putting too much thought into it I would guess that it's been a while since we had a really novel technology go widespread in its early days (cue counte

Without putting too much thought into it I would guess that it's been a while since we had a really novel technology go widespread in its early days (cue counterexamples) - really new things tend to stay niche so we don't get daily reminders of how dogshit they are. If you go back to early television, though, you'll see an objectively dogshit product that was amazing at the time. I think that's what we're looking at now with AI