Before AI it was "The Cloud". Before the cloud it was "Virtualization". They're saying all the same things about AI that they said about the cloud and virtualization...

So you're saying AI will make a measurable (arguably net positive) impact and forever change the way we do things in our day to day, just becoming a standard toolset offered by many providers? Because I'd argue that's what virtualization was, as well as the cloud to a lesser extent. Hell, I'd be hard pressed to be convinced on virtualization being a bad thing (not as much the cloud tho, that has some solid negative arguments).

If you're trying to shit talk AI, you'd be better off comparing it to block chain than cloud/virtualization, since the latter two are an integral part of a large amount of the work we do, and the former is mainly for illicit drugs/activities and stealing money.

The Cloud is still a thing though. As is virtualization

And AI (LLMs, media generation, machine learning) are going to stay a thing as well.

Everytime I see this kind of hype pop up I think back to when there was this great announcement from Silicon Valley about a "revolution in transportation" and it turned out to be the Segway.

I think it's a real shame because all three of those things you mention are useful. The problem is that once they become a buzzword, then everything needs to be done using that buzzword.

Cloud has been misused to hell and back, and I have no doubt AI will too.