ML/AI has been over-hyped before diffusion models and ChatGPT. I remember in 2017 hearing AI buzzwords and seeing AI hackathon projects alongside VR and crypto,

ML/AI has been over-hyped before diffusion models and ChatGPT. I remember in 2017 hearing AI buzzwords and seeing AI hackathon projects alongside VR and crypto, and apparently it's been going on to some extent since the early 2010s. But seeing LLMs show genuine intelligence and general reasoning has definitely pushed the hype exponentially further.