As far as the "AI" that's been hyped out the wazoo, the only people I see that are excited about it are people who haven't used it yet and don't know how it works. So there's a little "black box magic" in their attitude because, hey, it might be something fantastic - I mean, they say it is, right?

Machine Learning and other "formerly known as" artificial intelligence functions may or may not be getting huge upgrades - none that I've seen so far, but even if there were, it'd be limited to STEM fields and such. I take this art to be referencing the ChatGPT and CoPilot type "looks like you're typing as letter want me to help with that, by spewing paragraphs of reasonably calculated probable words" sort of Clippy-type stuff.

So, I would agree some people seem excited about it still, but I would note they are also the people who haven't been extremely disappointed with it yet either. Once they've had their fill (usually about 10 minutes) it will become annoying, as it is to everyone else. Only because Microsoft has sunk so many billions into it - it will never ever go away. And the carnage will roll on unabated, hobbling the sciences and liberal arts for decades.