[hvmonk]

We have seen many a bubbles in the past. The AI bubble will also burst eventually. I have a first hand experience of it in the ML/NLP world, and I can safely say it is about 30% works plus 70% hype.

Large amount of data has helped, so AI systems are better than before (with lots of training data), but that's pretty much it. It is not going to replace programming jobs, leave aside solving world problems.

[Will_Parker]

Given that creating and improving AI is a programming job, once you've replaced programming jobs you've replaced everything else too.