AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Naysayers have been moving the goalposts for 60 years

First, AI beat checkers players.
Then it diagnosed diseases.
Then it proved mathematical theorems.
Then it beat the world champion chess player.
Then it could understand speech and carry conversation.
Then it discovered new metal alloys and protein folding configurations.
Then it beat the world's champion Go/Baduk player.
Then it drove cars on streets with better safety than human drivers.
Then it directed humanoid robots to play soccer (badly).
And more.

But it's never enough to satisfy the naysayers. They always call it hype. "Oh it will never be able to do anything better than new proofs for old math." And so on.

Yes, there is hype.
Yes, there is over-selling.
Yes, it is "schlocky".

Yes, there is another AI winter coming. But every AI winter is milder than the one before and the industry goes from there to new accomplishments.

People who think AI has reached the pinnacle of its achievement are always proven wrong.