I took six weeks off to raise a baby and everyone decided it was the time to declare the AI revolution imminent. Its hard not to take it personally. The tick tock of new developments, each more impressive than the last – and each arriving on the scene faster than the last – hit its apogee last week with the near simultaneous announcement of Googles Bard and Microsofts Bing Chat. Since then, theres been possible permutation of the discourse, from millenarian claims of an imminent AI eschaton to...
