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Hiltzik: AI hype is as old as AI itself
Those of us who have spent the last few decades reporting on technology have seen fads and fashions rise and fall on investment bubbles. In the late 1990s it was dot-com companies, more recently crypto, blockchain, NFTs, driverless cars, the “metaverse.” All have had their day in the sun amid promises they would change the…