If you told people in 90s that at one point in future AIs will be able to:

- drive a car in traffic in almost all circumstances safer than majority of human drivers basing only on video input

- take a video and replace faces from another video well enough that more than 90% of people are fooled

- have 95%+ accurate OCR and speech recognition

- predict people's preferences regarding music/movies/books better than any human could

- generate short press articles on arbitrary subject appearing to most readers to be written by a human being

- win a game of chess/go/starcraft/whatever against the best human players

and asked them how far from that point till we have a general AI - they would most likely say less than a decade.

But now that we are there we devalue these acomplishements because we know how to do them, and still don't know how to do general AI.