[pknomad]

Maybe I'm slow but I'm failing to read the part where AI reminds the author of specifically cloud computing. The general premise seems to be "lot of early promises never panned out"... but then you can say that about pretty much any fads or exciting trends.

[ghaff]

It wasn't so much lots of early promises never panned out as that the dynamics of how the technology ends up being different than how people thought it would be. I admit I skipped over the specifics of cloud computing because it was already a fairly long post just focused on AI. (The general premise as you paraphrased it and the point I was trying to make are somewhat related but they are different.)