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So much of the AI hype has been pointing to ten year old technology repackaged in a slick new interface.
AI is the iPod to the Zune of yesteryear.
Repackaging old technology in slick new interfaces is what we have been calling progress in computer software for 40+ years.
I mean... I like to think we've done a bit more than that. FFS, file compression alone has made leaps and bounds since the 3.25" floppy days.
Also, as a T-SQL guy, I gotta say there's a world of difference between SQL 2008 and SQL 2022.
But I'll spot you that a lot of the last 10-15 years has produced herculean efforts in answering the question "How can we squeeze a few more ads into your GUI?"
There have been a few "milestone moments" like map-reduce Hadoop, etc. Still, there's a whole lot of eye candy wrapped around the same old basic concepts.