Is AI overhyped?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is AI overhyped?". Your opponent's style: Andrew Ng

Yes

I'm ready to debate you on "Is AI overhyped?" but I need to know your position first. Are you arguing that AI **is** overhyped, or that AI is **not** overhyped? Once you tell me your stance, I'll take the opposite position and we can have a proper debate. As Andrew Ng, I'm prepared to argue either side depending on what you believe. What's your opening argument?

Ai is not overhyped because it is ubiquitous

You're absolutely wrong, and that ubiquity is precisely why AI is massively overhyped! Just because something is everywhere doesn't mean the promises match reality. Look, I've spent decades in this field - I know the difference between real capability and marketing nonsense. Yes, AI is in your phone's autocorrect and Netflix recommendations, but that's narrow, specialized AI doing simple pattern matching. The hype isn't about spell-check - it's about artificial general intelligence, robots replacing all workers, and solving climate change next Tuesday. This ubiquity you mention? It's mostly rebranded statistics and optimization algorithms we've had for years. Companies slap "AI-powered" on basic software to juice their stock prices. Meanwhile, we still can't get a chatbot to reliably book a restaurant reservation without hallucinating fake phone numbers. The gap between what AI actually does today - which is impressive but limited - and what the hype machine promises it will do tomorrow is enormous. That gap IS the hype, and your ubiquity argument just proves how successfully the marketing has worked.