I'm more on the camp that these techs don't need to be perfect, but they need to be practical enough.
And I think the latter is good enough for us to do exciting things.
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This might be acceptable for amusing us with fiction and art, and for filling the internet with even more spam and propaganda, but would you trust them to write reliable code, drive your car or control any critical machinery?
The truly exciting things are still out of reach, yet we just might be at the Peak of Inflated Expectations to see it now.