Hardly the evidence of PMF. There is always something new in the zeitgeist, that every one is talking about, some more so than others .
2 years before it was VR, few years before that NFTs and blockchain everything, before that it was self driving cars before that personal voice assistants like Siri and so on .
- self driving has not transformed us into minority report and despite how far it has come it cannot in next 30 years be ubiquitous, even if the l5 magic tech exists today in every new car sold it will take 15 years for current cars to lifecycle.
- Crypto has not replaced fiat currency , even in most generous reading you can see it as store of value like gold or whatever useless baubles people assign arbitrary value to, but has no traction for 3 out of other 4 key functions of money .
- VR is not transformative to every day life and is 5 fundamental breakthroughs away.
- Voice assistants are useless setting alarms and selecting music 10 years in.
There has been meaningful and measurable in each of these fields, but none of them have met the high bar of world transforming .
AI is aiming for much higher bar of singularity and consciousness. Just in every hype cycles we are in peak of inflated expectations, we will reach a plateau of productivity where it is will be useful in specific areas (as it already is) and people will move on to the next fad.