Seems a lot of people are taking this as some kind of slight against AI. My read was just that the tech has (obviously) a lot of time wasting potential as peopl

Seems a lot of people are taking this as some kind of slight against AI. My read was just that the tech has (obviously) a lot of time wasting potential as people play with it and that that's likely to make it more lasting than something purely utilitarian. This checks out to me. The obvious reason current "AI" is so popular is because everyone can play with it and get results they understand. It was a lot less fun doing MNIST classifier tutorials.