The absolutely-not-hype-susceptible man who has been claiming for the past 20 years to have produced a fundamental theory of everything based on his research into finite-state automata?
Alright man if one guys obsession of his own work is hype, too, then hype now encompasses short-lived popular things as well as long-lived unpopular things, so in that case yes AI is hype and only hype, everything bad to you is hype and I’m hype too.
I’ll continue to use AI where it’s helpful, at very low cost, and know deep down that it’s hype.
I’d say the differentiator is that in addition to hype scammers, you have people like Stephen Wolfram excited.