[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?)