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I've been out of action a week or so and was trying to catch up. I was reading, or scanning over mostly, some stock newsletters (relatively serious ones) and you'd think that AI is going to be able to do everything a human can in the next 6 months. I wonder what odds the bookies of the world are giving it. Will Skynet take over and WWIII will actually be fought by man against his war machines? When something is hyped this much, I begin to remember the Y2K bug, beanie babies, limited edition art prints, etc. etc all the way back to tulip bulbs (okay, I'm too young for the tulip craze). The deeper the BS, the shallower the reality is usually a good way to look at things. Just wondering what others thought.

25 years ago, chess computer Deep Blue won a match against Chess World Champion Garry Kasparov. Many were saying this is the end of chess game as we know it. 25 years later, chess game is alive and beating, including new generations of World Champions, competitions, etc.

That's kind of my point, the hype and manipulation around any specific data bit is like an avalanche, the more it goes down the mountain, the more snow/people add to the size. Y2K was a perfect example for those that barely survived the impending apocalypse. Perfectly level headed computer programmers, hardware engineers were freaking out. I had one guy tell me that our cars were just going to stop in the middle of the street because the computers were going to crash, when I asked him why the car would care what year it was, since it was not even networked to any other computers, he just said you watch and see. In the words of Tommy Lee Jones in the first MiB "what a gullible breed".

If its any consolation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ais-victories-in-go-inspire-better-human-game-playing/ When I went to school they wanted to ban calculators because it was going to make people lazy and machines take over the world. When my children were going to school they wanted to ban computers because it was going to make people lazy and machines take over the world Now they are proposing to ban AI because it was going to make people lazy and machines take over the world. When do we ever learn?