Personally I feel this is a non sequiteur. I feel exactly the same as I always did about lemon curd, bricks and bimetallism in 1920s economic theory. AI hadn't

Personally I feel this is a non sequiteur. I feel exactly the same as I always did about lemon curd, bricks and bimetallism in 1920s economic theory. AI hadn't changed what I think about fireworks or chocolate snow shoes. So if you mean the hype machine then yes, I do think AI has displaced endless dribble about Mars, and there is a commonality between them, my previous paragraph not withstanding: they're both Hype. There is no fundamental underpinning which means the door plate rating matches the engine speed. Mars is fantasy. AI hype is fantasy. Chocolate snow shoes at least got chocolate. Mmm chocolate. (Bimetallism was a thing. Robertson Davies introduced me to it in "World of wonders", but the Bunker-Hunt brothers also raised the spectre with a spectacularly failed attempt to corner the world's silver supply in the 1970s, which led to government intervention)