[mingus88]

We will still talk about AI in five years because AI is still massively behind what the general public thinks of as AI

Think skynet or HAL. All powerful and all knowing systems that run every aspect of our lives.

Even our concept of VR is so far behind what people have expected from sci-fi movies for decades. Until we can jack in and get full sensory feedback, VR will continue to get talked about out as more than fancy 3D glasses.

In the 80s we all wanted the hoverboards from back to the future. We never got them but we keep calling things with wheels hoverboards because these ideas are too good to die and the general public still wants them.