I had dinner with a pair of bioinformatics PhDs (can't open the book halfway through, must start from the beginning) and naturally the topic came up—specifically that of generative AI—and the collective response was "it's just statistics and only knows what it's told," which seemed pretty spot on.
If you need some good word salad written, or some cursed art generated, well, AI's got you covered, I suppose.
From the people who ostensibly pay attention to this stuff and feed the people making the decisions (poorly), apparently we're here on the generative front:
View attachment 76501
I think autonomous vehicles are more on the 10 year timeframe than the 5 year timeframe, incidentally, and when I was in undergrad and worked on such a project circa 2008, computer vision was an emerging field that we mostly didn't have enough (or portable enough) raw computing power to pull off but it was certainly "on its way."