No one's thinking that far ahead because that would necessitate all this investment into AI having a greater return than just hype-driven valuation. If the via

No one's thinking that far ahead because that would necessitate all this investment into AI having a greater return than just hype-driven valuation. If the viability of what was sold as the applications of AI is true, then every person with a shred of foresight would be jumping in to make it happen. So far, all we've gotten are mildly better replacements for auto-complete, search engines, and natural language processing for human-computer interfaces (all things already figured out in the 70s). Either the people involved with the research and production of AI are myopic, lacking vision, or they understand -- whether consciously or unconsciously -- that what was sold cannot be done, and have simply resigned to fattening the hog for as long as they can before making their exits. I'm of the opinion it's a mixture of both.