[vantubbe]

Prior to AI, an algorithm that could identify objects in a picture seemed impossible. It's opened the door to countless use cases and has already redefined how we interact with technology to an extent. But it's early, like the internet was early in 1995.

And yes tons of scams and overhyping by people who clearly don't understand the technology themselves. Those people are always going to be around, they capitalize on excitement, regardless of whether the underlying thing is legitimate.

I've been subscribing to - AI probably won't be as bad or as awesome as everyone thinks.

[rsynnott]

> Prior to AI, an algorithm that could identify objects in a picture seemed impossible.

... I mean, kind of by definition, surely, in that CV as a whole has always been broadly categorised as AI. Computer vision's been around since the 60s, though outside of narrowly-defined problem spaces like OCR didn't really become useful til the 90s.

The current AI bubble is largely based around generative AI, not CV (CV was the _previous_ AI bubble; remember self-driving cars?)