Unlike cold fusion there is real practical progress. No grid energy comes frok cold fusion. Millions of people are using AI to help get their work done.
There must be a name for the human bias that sees what is possible this month and doesn't believe things might be very different very soon and change quickly.
AI has a tripple whamy that the models get more efficient, the chips will get faster and there will be more chips.
Capitalist and government money pouring in. There is money to be made and it is national security.
And to boot the cloud, big tech, cryptocurrency and gaming pouring more money into advancements in chips that boost ai.
Like there wont be people hooking up their LLMs to all that stuff, and more, because doing irresponsible things is seen as futurism and investors love it.