> 2 years before it was VR, few years before that NFTs and blockchain everything, before that it was self driving cars before that personal voice assistants like Siri and so on .
I never saw people talking about VR in public, nor NFTs, and the closest I got to seeing blockchain in public were adverts, not hearing random people around me chatting about it. The only people I ever saw in real life talking about self-driving cars were the ones I was talking to myself, and everyone else was dismissive of them. Voice assistants were mainly mocked from day 1, with the Alex advert being re-dubbed as a dystopian nightmare.
> AI is aiming for much higher bar of singularity and consciousness.
No, it's aiming to be economically useful.
"The singularity" is what a lot of people think is an automatic consequence of being able to solve tasks related to AI; me, I think that's how we sustained Moore's Law so long (computers designing computers, you can't place a billion transistors by hand, but even if you could the scale is now well into the zone where quantum tunnelling has to be accounted for in the design), and that "singularities" are a sign something is wrong with the model.
"Consciousness" has 40 definitions, and is therefore not even a meaningful target.
> Just in every hype cycles we are in peak of inflated expectations, we will reach a plateau of productivity where it is will be useful in specific areas (as it already is) and people will move on to the next fad.
In that at least, we agree.