Over-promising has killed AI progress before (expert systems). So history's just repeating itself.
People want to believe. They'll pay for their belief. Then when projects start to fail (~5 years after commercialization) they form the opinion that it was never going to work and they'll never do it again.
People want to believe. They'll pay for their belief. Then when projects start to fail (~5 years after commercialization) they form the opinion that it was never going to work and they'll never do it again.
... then we wait another decade, repeat.