I took six weeks off to raise a baby and everyone decided it was the time to declare the AI revolution imminent. It’s hard not to take it personally.
The tick-tock of new developments, each more impressive than the last – and each arriving on the scene faster than the last – hit its apogee last week with the near-simultaneous announcement of Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Since then, there’s been every possible permutation of the discourse, from millenarian claims of an imminent AI eschaton to rejection of the entire field as glorified autocomplete.
