Tomato Potato. Yes, there was usenet, and gopher, and FTP. Think splitting hairs a bit. As others have pointed out. 'AI', has been actively researched since

Tomato Potato. Yes, there was usenet, and gopher, and FTP. Think splitting hairs a bit. As others have pointed out. 'AI', has been actively researched since the 40's. So there was a lot of ground work before the latest shiny thing the 'LLM'. Just as there was a lot of ground work in 'networking' before WWW. I've been talking to GPT4 about a problem all day. I think everyone saying it is 'over-hyped' have really just not used it yet. It will definitely keep growing, it will replace jobs, it is already increasing productivity and changing markets. Sorry - one edit. I strongly disagree that things were 'well proven' with the Internet before the public was aware. If you include WWW and the rapid changes in standards and browsers, and technology. It was all moving as fast and with all the bugs and problems and hacks as needed for fast moving tech. There was a ton not proven, and with no use cases to justify it. It was a wild west. Now we are seeing it again.