Some of the AI fears felt outlandish. Maybe not so much now.

[excreationist]

I admit to not knowing much about how all this works and was just reporting something I had heard about this. It's hard to know how to apply "stupid" and "smart" to how these systems work. I agree that it is likely the computing power will come down in price, as these things are wont to do over time.

I think they work in a very sophisticated way and AI researchers often say they're not sure exactly how they work (because they learn by themselves rather than their behavior being fully programmed in like old-fashioned AI). Their "brains" are just full of numbers/weights. They call new phones "smart". On the other hand I'm not saying AI is sentient.