I think this view, that present day AI is something absolutely new, is actually the dominant view.
I don't believe the "absolutely new" view is very enlightening very often. Notably, it seems like "the dawn of a new era of tech" offers little insight to the process of change (but much hype). Even something like the explosion of the Internet is usefully compared to earlier technologies and what gave it's uniqueness wasn't incomparability but an explosion of scale.
I don't believe the "absolutely new" view is very enlightening very often. Notably, it seems like "the dawn of a new era of tech" offers little insight to the process of change (but much hype). Even something like the explosion of the Internet is usefully compared to earlier technologies and what gave it's uniqueness wasn't incomparability but an explosion of scale.