# Is AI overhyped?

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**Created:** [August 9, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ai-overhyped/1005471 "2024-08-09T12:57:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ai-overhyped/1005471/1 "2024-08-09T12:57:11Z")

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The people (Kurzweil, Kaku etc) Saying that AGI is [gonna happen this year](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUye38cooOE) or in 2029, where are they getting their optimism from? My yardstick is we have AGI when the average entry level worker (Me) Doesn’t need to do their job anymore.

I just find the predictions of life being completely altered in such a short time too fantastic to believe (And I **want** to believe it)

Are the people making these bold predictions wrong because they don’t have any real world experience in shitty dead end jobs, or am I missing something here?

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