Ryan Broderick succinctly sums up why the contemporary mega-hype around AI doesn’t depend on the systems we have being all that good, let alone ‘superintelligent’.

…the so-called AI boom we’re in right now is really selling two things, neither of which have to be very good.

A way to automate work you don’t value enough to hire a human being to do or, at the bare minimum, a way to hide the human beings doing that work so you can feel better about how little you pay them.

After all, the only person that the hype merchants really needs to convince is your boss.