[marshray]

I think we're just used to computers advancing noticeably on a regular basis: "Is this year's iPhone better enough to justify an upgrade?"

Also, we judge the difficulty of things by our own experience. It took us ~1 billion years to get to the point where we could communicate abstract ideas and play chess. These were once believed to be the challenging problems in AI.

It turned out that chess is easy we're just relatively bad at it.

[yters]

Chess is easy when you have the hardware to effectively brute force it. Once someone develops an algorithm that requires an order of moves comparable to a human, and significantly outperforms a human, then AI will be interesting.

[comstock]

I find it somewhat understandable from non-tech people. I’m more surprised at now much people within the tech world but the hype.