The Tesla lawsuits are real that he mentions in regards to their hype vs reality on their AI based self driving potential and the number of accidents that they have caused.

The abuse of AI as a replacement for many things (like customer support) that produce and even worst result than having some less than minimum wage worker in a foreign country work from a 1-2 page script to solve problems is also very obviously true.

The writing and art skimming and the end results are in my eyes laughable (I've pointed out before articles on just how badly AI does in drawing hands; and the garbage writing becomes obvious quickly when you try to get them to write anything that will be scrutinized).

Exactly... It's not real AI.... Real AI is still decades out, longer if they continue down this path. This is a buzz-word sales pitch for an inferior product. It's like tryin to sell Alexa as a full featured personal voice assistant when its no more what we used to call a 'Smart Agent' back in the 90s that has voice input/output (which regularly screws up) as an interface.

Its also why academia has already developed tools to catch these pseudo-AI outputs when they are submitted as essays and term papers being submitted by lazy students who in another age would pay a Essay/Dissertation mill to sell them someone else's work/

Yeah they can re-write fiction on the level of Harlequin Romance novels via a database of replacement names and location landmarks to give an illusion of representing a real location (a hack writer with a 2 page outline and a couple of tour books could slap the same thing out) but that hardly makes them the Frankenstein monster that will come for our creative jobs.

Agreed with the characterizations of "where we are".
But here (to me) is the Schrödinger's Cat(nip)

Real AI is still decades out, longer if they continue down this path.

Some good discussion of 'where we are' now and where we might go... but

Which path?

My early mantra (before "context & perspective") was my from my doctoral research, focusing in on "goals and expectations". I'm going to regress back to that one. What are they now? (the goals/expectations) and promoted by whom?

To me, "customer support" is an excellent example both of "where we are now" and where the profit-oriented club is salivating over. Yes, attitudes change.
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@Whuffo I don't believe hype easily, it's my nature to be cynical to marketing. Twenty years ago they told me everyone would be driving Hybrid cars combining Gas Engines and Electric ones under the hood of every car to make them more efficient, and at the same time told me that Hydrogen powered cars were right around the corner and that everyone would have an affordable E-Car that could be driven from coast to coast, recharging overnight at any motel on the road... None of this has come to full fruition.

Where's Our Permanent Moonbase? Where are our flying cars? Where are the Cold Fusion Generators MIT and others were hawking as the coming future after Fleischmann and Pons published?

Super Symmetry was going to explain everything in physics (it didn't) String Theory was goin to answer all the big questions on how the universe operated that the Standard Model Didn't "10 years down the road" since 1968... and yet its always 10 years more down the future of the timeline...