AI is always less impressive than is claimed
Personally, I&#x27;d argue the opposite: AI today is <i>super</i> impressive compared to what it was 15 or 30 years ago.<p>There used to be a time when one could rightfully dismiss new cool things AI with &quot;meh, wake me up when an AI beats a professional Go player on a 19x19 board&quot;. Because doing so requires an AI that displays intuition and use of heuristics (Go moves tend to have both local&#x2F;tactical and global&#x2F;strategic consequences on the board) rather than one that merely brute forces its way through a decision tree.<p>The fact that one actually did recently is nothing short of game-changing in my view. It matters little that an AI doesn&#x27;t demonstrably understand meaning or fully grasp intent. Plus, when one does, we&#x27;ll arguably have (or not be too far from) a strong AI that, I would gather, won&#x27;t be too impressed with our own human-level thinking. :-)