[kamaal]

>>I'm pretty sure that there's a similar surge of interest in all countries.

Yup. Same here in India.

People talk as though singularity is next year or so, and like Y2K jobs they have to do AI programming jobs.

Went to campus hiring like a few weeks back. And everyone had one or two show-and-tell AI/ML projects on their resume. Like every one. Everything from fitness apps to face emotion recognition.