Sincerely, everyone in my real life I know bemoans AI hype. The only really love it has is in memes (things like voice swaping, singing politicians, things like that). I'm surprised people on HN have no exposure to such people.
People don't generally like or dislike the combustion engine. They like the ability to get from place to place faster.
I don't need or want that from most applications, especially a photo viewer.
It almost always does but only because it is offered this way, it is not a hard technical requirement. There is nothing that would prevent offering a standalone version running locally for customers with their hardware powerful enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Again, you’ve gotta remember that originally, playing chess was considered an unfathomable expression of machine thinking. Now it’s a problem trivially solved in CS112 class.
It’s a lot less magic when you see behind the curtain.
Also, back in 2014, it wasn't "just" facial recognition. It was the dawn of the new age of Deep Learning, bringing capabilities that had never existed before.
Is that even considered AI by the hype/marketing machine? It's been around longer than these new language models.
Maybe I'm naive, but it doesn't feel like we're done building the boring stuff yet.