The Resurgent Hype Cycle for AI

In 2010, 2013, people were publishing these studies saying, hey, within a decade, maybe even two decades. At least half of all our jobs are going to be gone because they're made up of aggregated tasks or tasks that can be disaggregated and assigned to robots/automation systems. And the time has gone on. Few, if any of these jobs have been automated away. A lot of the firms that offered these products and services that were supposed to get rid of the jobs have collapsed and crumbled. Still this is only an inconvenience for people who are pushing the automation technologies, right? Because like Meredith was talking about, right? This is still going to be